Daniel Fowle Prints First NH Newspaper
Still standing in one form or another since 1756, The NH Gazette
Jeffrey Bolster on Black Jacks in the Age of Sail
Our exclusive 1997 interview with W. Jeffrey Bolster and his breakthrough maritime and black history book
The Morning Star: Dover’s Antislavery Newspaper
Dover historian Ed Wentworth recounts a Free Will Baptist struggle
Seacoast Black Heroes
Celebrating African figures from our local history as we learn their stories
The Fading Fame of John Greenleaf Whittier
From rock star to literary and anti-slavery footnote
In Search of Black Yankee Images
Every new image adds to our knowledge of a sometimes invisible world
Primus Fowle Ran the First NH Printing Press
We have only snippets of Fowle's biography, all from white writers
Did NH Governor John Langdon Enslave Workers?
Although his family enslaved farm workers, John leaned toward Abolitionism
The Coffins Under the Street
Did Portsmouth's "Negro Burying Ground"
fall victim to early commercial expansion?
Frederick Douglass Comes to Town Twice
A powerful figure for a troubled time
Who Really Ran the Underground Railroad?
Turning a metaphor back into reality
Colored Patriots of New Hampshire
An excerpt from the classic work of William Cooper Nell