Explore African American history in New England and discover a little-known chapter of their story of slavery and freedom in America.
African Americans in Early Rural New England
Looking at the Evidence
Primary sources from Deerfield and beyond.
Mary: Lamson family servant
Portrait of W. E. B. Du Bois
“Arrest of a Fugitive Slave in Boston” article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
African American Musicians
African American: Slavery and the 18th-Century Family
African American: Souls of the Enslaved
Pages from Rev. Jonathan Ashley’s account book
Seating “Negroes” in the Old Hadley meetinghouse
Portrait of Lucy Terry Prince
Three Centuries of African Americans
Mini-exhibits about African Americans
Who Lived Here?
Mapping African Americans in Deerfield
Revealing Documents About Slavery
Interactive transcriptions of primary sources
Seeing How It was Done
Video demonstrations of early American tools
