black history month Archives - Mystic Seaport Museum https://mysticseaport.org/tag/black-history-month/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:40:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://mysticseaport.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-MSP_Logo_100_White-32x32.png black history month Archives - Mystic Seaport Museum https://mysticseaport.org/tag/black-history-month/ 32 32 Mystic Seaport Museum and Discovering Amistad Present a Free Program Honoring Black History Month https://mysticseaport.org/press-release/mystic-seaport-museum-and-discovering-amistad-present-a-free-program-honoring-black-history-month/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:36:59 +0000 https://mysticseaport.wpengine.com/?p=374519 Mystic, Conn. (February 13, 2023) – Mystic Seaport Museum and Discovering Amistad will partner to host an invigorating moderated roundtable discussion in celebration of Black History Month. This interdisciplinary conversation will highlight Black Excellence at Sea and will include historical and contemporary Black maritime narratives. The lecture will be held in the Masin Room of the Thompson […]

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]]> Letters From the Colored Sailor’s Home in the Mid 19th Century https://mysticseaport.org/news/letters-from-the-colored-sailors-home/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:26:20 +0000 https://mysticseaport.wpengine.com/?p=367185 The G.W. Blunt White Library manuscript collection at Mystic Seaport Museum recently offered up an exciting find in the form of reports and correspondence relating to the Colored Sailors’ Home(s) run by the American Seamen’s Friend Society in the mid-19th century. As the name suggests, these were boarding houses specifically for sailors of color; the […]

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