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Upper
Housatonic Valley
African American
Heritage Trail
A
project of the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage
Area
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The
African American Heritage Trail encompasses 29
Massachusetts and Connecticut towns in the
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area,
and celebrates African Americans in the region
who played pivotal roles in key national and international
events,
as well as ordinary people of achievement.
Among
the key 48 sites along the trail:
W.E.B.
Du Bois boyhood Homesite, a national landmark property
in Great Barrington, and the Burghardt homestead
where young Du Bois lived for a time
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Col. Ashley House in Sheffield
where Elizabeth 'Mum Bett' Freeman was
enslaved
and whose successful suit for liberty
set the stage for the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts
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Samuel Harrison House in Pittsfield,
home of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment chaplain
who protested discriminatory pay practices
Mumbet Day,
Tuesday August 21 4-7 pm
Ashley House,
Sheffield CLICK
Elizabeth
Freeman Online Exhibit
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W.E.B. Du Bois
National Historic Site!
Available NOW!
On the Other Side
of Glory:
The Berkshire Men of the 54th
Massachusetts Infantry
Regiment
by Emilie Piper and David Levinson
Published by Upper Housatonic Valley
African American Trail
CLICK
for Information and to order by mail
CLICK for Author Talks, Signings, Tours
Order online:
New! from
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Northeast
African American Historic Places Map
Find our 48 Sites on Google Earth
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for Information
or
CLICK
to See our Sites via Google Earth
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We are now on
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Rev. Samuel Harrison |
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Agrippa Hull |
Elizabeth Freeman
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Photos: Rev.
Harrison: Samuel Harrison Society; Du Bois: Special Collections and Archives,
W.E.B. Du
Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Agrippa Hull: Stockbridge
Library Historical Collection; Church Outing: Elizabeth Freeman:© Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
MA USA; Gary Leveille
Collection, Great Barrington Historical Society
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