Boston: African Meeting House
Welcome back to the Cradle of American Liberty! If this is your first time seeing a post about Boston, I would encourage you to go back and look at some of the other information I've written about the historic city. It seemed important to go back and finish looking into a few of the important sites before taking the blog in a new direction, and with that in mind I'd like to complete our review of Boston's Black Heritage Trail with the final site, the African Meeting House. As the 19th century began the legal freedom that many black residents of Boston enjoyed did not guarantee them equal rights. Although they were permitted to attend the same churches as white Christians, they were not given membership voting rights or permitted to sit on first-floor pews. A preacher named Thomas Paul had led a group that worshipped and Faneuil Hall, and by 1805 they organized as the First African Baptist Church. By the end of the following year, land had been purchased and a building