11th-hour push to save a slice of Concord - The Boston Globe

11th-hour push to save a slice of Concord - The Boston Globe
Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/14/11th_hour_push_to_save_a_slice_of_concords_past?mode=PF

In Concord, a bid to save tie to abolitionist days

By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | September 14, 2009

CONCORD - Amid such historical touchstones as Walden Pond and the Old North Bridge, the quaint cottage barely merits a second glance, just another Revolutionary-era New England house in a town steeped in the past.

But the brown shingled house on Bedford Street, built in the 1780s by the town’s first freed slave, is the last of its kind, a crucial but long-forgotten link to the town’s early black community and abolitionist movement. With the house in danger of being demolished, its history has emerged from obscurity, and advocates have mounted a spirited campaign to stave off its demise....

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Also see:
"Walden Woods Was a Black Space Before It Was a Green Space
By Elise Lemire

EliseLemire is the author of Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath
in Concord, Massachusetts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)."
http://hnn.us/articles/116046.html