File:Faneuil Hall interior.jpg
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While in Boston we strolled along part of the "freedom trail", visiting some of the historic sites. Faneuil Hall has lots of plaques and signs telling about how the hall was a meeting place for early Boston. Much is made of the hall's use in the years just before the American Revolution, speeches made on liberty and freedom and what not. What I didn't see mentioned at the hall, but have been reading in a book called "Complicity", is that Peter Faneuil, "endower of Faneuil Hall", was a slave-owning Boston merchant. He owned a plantation on French St. Domingue. Shortly after the American Revolution, and after Peter Faneuil's time, the slaves of St. Domingue rebelled successfully. Today the former colony is known as Haiti. In the early 1800s, as abolitionism gained force so did anti-abolitionism. In August, 1835, an anti-abolitionism rally was held at Faneuil Hall. More than 1,500 people gathered and speeches in favor of slavery were made by the likes of former Boston mayor Harrison Gray Otis. Faneuil Hall is nicknamed the "Cradle of Liberty", which sounds strange given it was built with money made through slavery. |
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| Author | pfly from Pugetopolis |
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