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The Museum of African American History is dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans in New England from the colonial period through the 19th century.

This Unitarian Church was built in 1809. Captain Absalom Boston was married here in 1814, his name appears on the register. Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) both spoke in this church, Douglass in 1885 and Washington in 1904.

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