Revolution 250 Podcast

True Inheritors of the Revolution's Legacy

February 16, 2021 Shawn Quigley Season 2 Episode 7
Revolution 250 Podcast
True Inheritors of the Revolution's Legacy
Show Notes

Shawn Quiqley of the National Parks of Boston discusses the legacy of Crispus Attucks, killed at the Boston Massacre, and how abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and Black Bostonians such as William Cooper Nell and Lewis Hayden  used the Revolution and revolutionary rhetoric as a tool to advance the antislavery cause, and made Boston a hub on the Underground Railroad.