4.4: Mapping Black North Enders, 1780-1810: Interview with Ryan Bachman

For the last episode of Season Four, recent Paul Revere House Research Fellow Ryan Bachman discusses his research into Black residents in the North End, in the decade that legal slavery ended in Massachusetts and the decades that followed. He highlights some of his favorite stories and discusses the challenges and opportunities of tracing people’s lives through government documents such as census data and tax records. In Our Favorite Questions, interpreters Derek and Colton talk about the power of physical places and objects in connecting with history. We’ll be back with more Revere House Radio next spring!The map, presented on our blogShort biography of Salem Poor from American Battlefield TrustBook: Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860 by George LevesqueBook: Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. HortonArticle: The Forgotten Legacy of Boston’s Historic Black Graveyard by Dart AdamsBook: Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860 by Joanne Pope MelishBook: Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a native of Africa, who was enslaved in childhood, and died in Boston, January 3, 1815https://www.paulreverehouse.org/