Thursday, October 17th, 6 pm, social hour; 7 pm, lecture
Pilgrim Hall Museum, 75 Court Street, Plymouth
Tickets: $10 per person, $5 members, free for students with valid ID (reserve tickets)
2024 Pilgrim Hall Museum Speaker Series sponsored by Tiny & Sons Auto Glass A spiritual ground zero for the Mayflower Pilgrims, First Church of Christ of Plymouth also offered spiritual sustenance and connection for people of color.
A striking example is the 1762 wedding of Hannah Hovey, a black bondswoman living in Plymouth, and Briton Hammon, an enslaved sailor at the center of the first African American slave narrative. Through their relationship to First Church, Rutgers University Professor Keith Greene explores the early history of Plymouth people of color, following these neglected parishioners through church archives, the records of white members with whom they were affiliated, and the expanding literature on black and Indigenous life in colonial New England, in order to understand life in First Church’s “negro pew.”
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