Name: Gavin
Date: 12/06/2010
Last week we have our mid-term exams. It was a time that I can find our problems in which courses. Through this exam I found some problems about me. I should study hard after classes, I cannot play too late.
At the Friday I did a presentation about Abiel Smith House. The Abiel Smith School, located at 46 Joy Street, was constructed between 1834 and 1835. It was built by the City of Boston to house the African School and was one of the earliest buildings designed by architect Richard Upjohn. Starting in 1787, many black Bostonians fought tirelessly against the inequality and discrimination in public schools. The Abiel Smith School is now a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public Monday through Saturday, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
I think this trip was very interesting because I saw many beautiful buildings and many beautiful cars. The people who live there are very rich, that I saw the life style about them.

Sources:

1. Bower, Beth Ann. "The African Meeting House, Massachusetts: Summary Report of Archaeological Excavation, 1975- 1986." Museum of African American History, Boston, MA.

2. Jacobs, Donald M. ed. Courage and Conscience: Black and White Abolitionists in Boston. Bloomington: Indiana University Press for the Boston Anthenaeum, 1993

3. Kendrick, Stephen and Kendrick, Paul. Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changes America. Boston: Beacon Hill Press, 2004.

4. Wesley, Dorothy Porter, and Constance Porter Uzelac, eds. William Cooper Nell, Nineteenth-Century African American Abolitionist, Historian, Integrationist: Selected Writings, 1832-1874. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 2002.

5. “Historic Resource Study Boston African American National Historic Site” by Kathryn Grover and Janine V. da Silva