For the last episode of Season Four, recent Paul Revere House Research Fellow Ryan Bachman discusses his research into Black residents in the North End, in the decade that legal slavery ended in Massachusetts and the decades that followed. He highlights some of his favorite stories and discusses the challenges and opportunities of tracing people’s lives through government documents such as census data and tax records. In Our Favorite Questions, interpreters Derek and Colton talk about the power of physical places and objects in connecting with history. We’ll be back with more Revere House Radio next spring!

• The map, presented on our blog
• Short biography of Salem Poor from American Battlefield Trust
• Book: Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860 by George Levesque
• Book: Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
• Article: The Forgotten Legacy of Boston’s Historic Black Graveyard by Dart Adams
• Book: Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860 by Joanne Pope Melish
• Book: Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a native of Africa, who was enslaved in childhood, and died in Boston, January 3, 1815

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In this episode we welcome Sarah McDonough of the Lexington History Museums. We discuss what happened when Paul Revere reached Lexington, some individuals’ stories from that revolutionary moment and that era, and the magic that happens in both costumed interpretation and large reenactments like the ones coming up. In the Our Favorite Questions segment, Revere House interpreter Jay shares some details of 18th-century daily life.

Please note that the episode includes discussion of some of the violent realities of both war and slavery.

• Lexington History Museums
• 1825 book that includes William Munroe’s account
• A History of the Fight at Concord, by Ezra Ripley (Google Books link)
• Dolly Hancock’s account
• “Mark Hung in Chains:” Slavery & Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride” from our Revere Express blog
• Liberty and Servitude at the Hancock-Clarke House
• Patriots’ Day events in Lexington
• April 18th events in Boston and Charlestown

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This episode’s guest is Nikki Stewart, Executive Director of Old North Illuminated. She says that Old North Church is famous for just one minute, when Paul Revere’s signal lanterns shone, but there’s a lot more to the church’s long history. Nikki shares information that research has uncovered in the past five years and how it has reshaped their interpretation of the historic site. In the Our Favorite Things segment, interpreters Corbin and Derek talk about historical legends and how people in different eras could have markedly different ways of viewing the world.

• Old North Illuminated
• Hub history podcast
• Play: Revolution’s Edge
• Lanterns and Luminaries event honoring Ken Burns
• 250th events at Old North and beyond
• Upcoming events at the Paul Revere House, including April 18 events
• Dr. Jaimie Crumley on Beulah Speen: “The Social Construction of Race in Early Massachusetts History”
• Dr. Jaimie Crumley’s PRMA lecture "Old England in New England: Contradictions in the History of Boston's Old North Church"

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