BOSTON'S ABOLITIONISTS By Kerri Greenidge

Slavery was outlawed as an institution in Massachusetts in 1783, and by 1790 all of the more than five thousand blacks living in the state were free. In Boston, African Americans formed a strong community centered in the north slope of Beacon Hill. During the following seventy years, as America came to a boil and Civil War approached, black Bostonians helped lead the fight against slavery nationwide. In this concise history of a tumultuous period, a scholar of the African American community in Boston vividly describes and analyzes the abolitionist movement in the Massachusetts capital. 65 pages. paperback.