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African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts

African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts Photograph
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Photograph, circa 1892

18 cm x 12.8 cm

From William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life, Volume I, Part II, by Wendell Phillips Garrison, (NY, 1885), extra illustrated edition, image opposite page 280.
Handwritten caption below image: "The African Baptist Church in Smith Court, Belknap Street. Birthplace of the New England Anti Slavery Society."


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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

Many early anti-slavery meetings were held at the African Meeting House, a Baptist church built on Boston's Beacon Hill in 1806 and sometimes referred to as the "Black Faneuil Hall." It was here that William Lloyd Garrison and other white abolitionists founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society, which merged in 1833 with the Massachusetts General Colored Association.