Johnson House Open July 3
The Nathan and Polly Johnson House will be open for visitors on Thursday, July 3 from 1-4 PM.
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Nzinga’s Daughters Performance
Join us on July 17 for a special performance of Music of the Underground Railroad with Nzinga’s Daughters. The event is co-sponsored by the Rotch Jones Duff House and will be held in the garde at 7 PM.
Book signing for African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album
Thursday, June 5, 2014 6:30 – 8:30 at the Ft. Taber Community Center. Event is open to the public and free of charge. Coddington_event Ron Coddington, noted historian and author of three Civil War histories including African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album will present the stories of men of color in battle through […]
Dia Cultura da Cabo Verde / Day of Cape Verdean Culture
Saturday, April 26 9am-3:30pm NBHS Cape Verdean Middle School Flyer
Our I-Dentities
Join us on Saturday, April 5th, 3-5pm, as we celebrate Spring and the power of words with a gathering of local poets who will share their thoughts on Our I-Dentities. Hosted by Everett Hoagland with guest poet Tony Medina, winner of the 2013 Langston Hughes Society Award and a professor of Creative Writing at Howard […]
City was bastion for abolitionism
AAA Southern New England February 2014 / In Your Backyard By Poornima Apte Visitors to New Bedford, Mass., might give the Frederick Douglass monument a passing glance, but the city’s vibrant history actually includes its role as a major hub on the Underground Railroad. Frederick and Anna Douglass, a newly married couple at the time, came […]
New Bedford schools working on Frederick Douglass Curriculum
Frederick Douglass will soon be getting his due in the city’s public school curriculum. Beginning next year, students in Grades 8-10 will study the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,” the autobiography written by the then-young future abolitionist who arrived in New Bedford in 1838. Students in the middle and high […]
Your View: All New Bedford students should read Frederick Douglass’ 1845 narrative
Some 6,000 American slave narratives exist, and one of the best of the genre is the 1845 “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself.” It is a short, powerful, accessible and inspiring book written by the greatest, most eloquent and best-known self-educated individual ever to have lived in New […]
A heritage ignored no more – Exhibit highlights Cape Verdean backbone of New Bedford’s whaling industry
By James Sullivan Globe Correspondent / June 24, 2011 NEW BEDFORD — Jim Lopes’s great-grandfather was a New Bedford whaler who emigrated from Cape Verde in 1873. Lopes’s grandfather also worked on the ships in the waning days of whaling prominence in this coastal city. For him and others with similar backgrounds, he recalled, “It […]
The New Bedford Historical Society seeks to establish a solid base of research and programs that will make the contributions of people of color a part of the life and and history of the region as well as a part of the permanent, public record. In the process, the history of the region in general will become fuller, deeper, and richer for everyone.
