The Patriots of Color exhibit has opened at the American Ancestors location on Newbury Street in the Back Bay. Pictured: a silhouette of Cambridge student artist Preceous Gomez portraying Salem Poor, a Black man from Andover who fought in the American Revolution.
The Patriots of Color exhibit has opened at the American Ancestors location on Newbury Street in the Back Bay. Pictured: a silhouette of Cambridge student artist Preceous Gomez portraying Salem Poor, a Black man from Andover who fought in the American Revolution. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff American Ancestors, the nation’s oldest and largest genealogy society, wove together genealogical and archival research to piece together US history before slavery was outlawed, discovering stories from Black patriots that were previously excluded from the American narrative.
The society recently unveiled a new exhibit, Patriots of Color, at the Family Heritage Experience museum in the Back Bay, inviting visitors to consider the role people of color played in shaping the nation’s founding 250 years ago.
It’s part of 10 Million Names, a research project to recover all the names of the men, women, and children enslaved from the Colonial era until the end of slavery in 1865.
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