African-American Heritage Trails in New England

From the city of Boston to the smallest New England towns, African-American heritage trails honor the lives and contributions of black New Englanders.

By Yankee Magazine|Jun 17 2020| Print icon

Sojourner Truth, who lived in Florence, Massachusetts, in the 1840s and 1850s, is the most celebrated of the many abolitionists celebrated by the town's African-American Heritage Trail.

Credit: Lynne Graves/Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism/CC BY-ND 2.0

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