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Add EventIn honor of Black History Month, Gore Place will offer an evening tour highlighting the life and activism of Robert Roberts, author of "The House Servants Directory" (1827). The tour also highlights other activists and prominent Black leaders from the Boston area, some of whom worked with Roberts in the fight for equality in early […]
With the 1827 publication of his "House Servant’s Directory"—while employed as a manservant for the elite Bostonians Christopher and Rebecca Gore—Robert Roberts became America’s first commercially published Black author. A leader in Boston’s free Black community, he was a church deacon, a businessman, an abolitionist, and a fighter for civil rights. In this talk, we’ll […]
Gore Place will offer an evening tour highlighting the life and activism of Robert Roberts, author of the "House Servant’s Directory" (1827) and head of household staff for Christopher and Rebecca Gore. Along the way, you will see the beautiful great stairs, peacock parlor, library, withdrawing room, bed chambers and servant’s quarters of the impressive […]
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