Literature Reviews

Join Libricola in exploring The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution by William Cooper Nell! Beacon Hill’s north slope, the heart of Boston’s Black community in the 1800s, has a block-long street of historic buildings called Smith Court. One pale yellow 18th-century (private) house, with a tall, twisting magnolia tree now in bloom, was probably an Underground Railroad site. It was also the home of the Black abolitionist William Cooper Nell, who in the 1850s wrote The C

Join Libricola once a month in assessing literature that is connected to our monthly themes and the historical narrative you’d encounter on one of our historic tours of Boston. This month, delve deeper with Libricola on Elizabeth Murray Campbell Smith Inman. I will use a chunk of my allotted words here to name one of the 18th century occupants of Boston’s oldest burying ground: Elizabeth Murray Campbell Smith Inman. Patricia Cleary's biography, Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's P