Between 1831 and 1865, as the population of Boston surged from 60,000 to more than 175,000, the African- American population remained relatively stable—increasing to about 2,400. The Boston abolitionist movement first emerged from this long-settled, free black population and fugitives from slave states who settled here. The interracial New England Anti-Slavery Society was founded at the African Meeting House in 1832, and during the first years of its publication, three quarters of the subscribers to The Liberator were black.
Through the pages of The Liberator, other local antislavery publications, and lecture tours by visiting American and English abolitionists, Boston became a hub of the national and international antislavery movement. The anniversary of emancipation in the British West Indies on 1 August 1834 became one date that was commemorated in Boston in the years that followed. Antislavery societies also often held rallies or events on the Fourth of July in the 1830s and 1840s.
and what not. the "history" Y'all cherish so much Is just a reminder for me about the role that area played in the destruction of my people.
What an uneducated post. 
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