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Opium Smugglers: Boston's Merchants and the China Trade, 1790-1850

In collaboration with the Forbes House Museum

Inquiry Question: How did New England merchants engage in trade with China in the decades immediately following the founding of the United States?

Inquiry Question: What was traded and how?

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"A Great Public Nuisance": Boston's segregated schools in the mid-1800s

Inquiry Question 1: Prior to 1855, in what ways did segregated schools harm Black children in Boston?

Inquiry Question 2: What actions did Black families take to advocate for integration?

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