Waterfront Wednesdays Ep. 24: Black Mariners

L'Merchie Frazier, an artist and the Director of Education at Boston's Museum of African American History, joins Boston Harbor Now's Alice Brown for a conversation on the relationships of black and indigenous people with the water and the harbor throughout Boston's history. Be sure to follow the Museum of African American History on twitter @MAAHMuseum and Alice @ferryfaerie Land Acknowledgement: Dr. Karilyn Crockett Middle Passage Marker Project, Collaborative Partners: MAAH, City of Boston, BPDA and NPS Special Thanks to: Ann Chin, Middle Passage Port and Ceremonies Marker Project, Dr. Vivian Johnson, Rep. Byron Rushing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The Mayflower at Sea", drawing from a book, c 1893 via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower#/media/File:The_Mayflower_at_sea.jpg “African canoes and European sailing vessels, Corisco Island, Equatorial Guinea,” mid-19th century. [Drawings of Western Africa, University of Virginia Library, Special Collections, mss 14357, no. 4] “Triangular Trade as Illustrated by the Voyage of the Sanderson” from https://pioneerinstitute.org/city-upon-a-hill-massachusetts-monuments-memorials-25-resources-for-k-12-education/ “Reproduction of a handbill advertising a slave auction in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1769” Author unknown, via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#/media/File:Slave_Auction_Ad.jpg “Printing Press,” Jost Amman / Public domain, from Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. (p 64), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Printer_in_1568-ce.png “Phillis at Port Adelaide” https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1373/37/8 "Statue of Phillis Wheatley," by Sharon Mollerus via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/etbVq "East Prospect of Cape Coast, or Coast Castle, by W. Smith, 1727: https://www.slavevoyages.org/documents//images/465CA20B5CBCBFB32BBDBB50CB51DE4B.JPG “Portrait of Phillis Wheatley” by Scipio Moorhead via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley#/media/File:Phillis_Wheatley_frontispiece.jpg “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley, 1773” Old South Meeting House - Boston, Massachusetts, USA https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Poems_on_Various_Subjects%2C_Religious_and_Moral%2C_by_Phillis_Wheatley%2C_1773_-_Old_South_Meeting_House_-_Boston%2C_MA_-_DSC05815.jpg “Crispus Attucks,” unknown artist, from from Bridgewater State College archive in Bridgewater, Massachusetts https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Crispus_Attucks.jpg “Boston Massacre,” John Bufford after William L. Champey, c. 1856 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Boston_Massacre%2C_03-05-1770_-_NARA_-_518262.jpg “Captain Paul Cuffe,” Engraved for Abrm. L. Pennock by Mason & Maas., From a drawing by John Pole, M.D., of Bristol, Eng. - Library of Congress https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Paul_Cuffee4.jpg “African Meeting House” Massachusetts Historical Society http://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=1684&mode=large&img_step=1&