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Learn the History of early Concord African Americans and then visit The Old Manse also in Concord
This house is one of the only known historic sites commemorating the legacy of a previously enslaved Revolutionary War veteran.
The site is a 544 sq. ft. historic early 19th century house originally inhabited by the first generation of descendants of a formerly enslaved African American Revolutionary War veteran, Caesar Robbins, and by a fugitive slave Jack Garrison.
This one-and-a-half story house, which has been dated to the early 1800s, was a two-family farmhouse occupied by one former slave, and by two grown children of another.
Ellen Garrison (1823 – 1892)
ANTISLAVERY ACTIVIST
Ellen Garrison, the daughter and granddaughter of men who had been enslaved, spent her life educating newly freed people and fighting for their civil rights. Born and raised in this house, Ellen’s activism began in Concord. Early on, she learned about racial discrimination, and followed in her mother’s footsteps as an antislavery activist.
The Old Manse was constructed for patriot minister William Emerson. The upstairs overlooks North Bridge, where the famous battle of April 19, 1775, took place. Later, some of New England’s most esteemed minds found inspiration inside its walls. In the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne both called the Manse home for a time/
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