Revere House Radio

On September 16, 1774, Paul Revere delivered the Suffolk Resolves to the delegates at the First Continental Congress, held at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia. This episode’s guest is Michael Norris, Executive Director of Carpenters’ Hall, which is now a historic site. We’ll also hear a second excerpt from the Suffolk Resolves and hear from interpreter Cadee in Our Favorite Questions.

• Carpenters’ Hall
• The Suffolk Resolves full text, from the Massachusetts Historical Society
• John Adams’s “Sinful Feast” journal entry (about 1⁄3 down the page, Septr. 8.)

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Did you now that Paul Revere worked as a dentist in colonial Boston? Learn about the often grisly process of dentistry in his time and how he managed to pull off such an unusual job from Adrienne Turnbull-Reilly!

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Paul Revere's last business venture was also his most successful, both for his personal gain and in his national contributions. Revere took on an ambitious project of opening the United States' first copper rolling mill in 1800, and his work proved to be of lasting significance to his legacy and his nation.

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What was the weather like in the Colonial period? This episode outlines a handful of extreme weather events Revere experienced, as well as what the weather was like on the day of recording!
Read Jeremiah Newland's poem about the Cape Ann Earthquake here

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For the last episode of Season Four, recent Paul Revere House Research Fellow Ryan Bachman discusses his research into Black residents in the North End, in the decade that legal slavery ended in Massachusetts and the decades that followed. He highlights some of his favorite stories and discusses the challenges and opportunities of tracing people’s lives through government documents such as census data and tax records. In Our Favorite Questions, interpreters Derek and Colton talk about the power of physical places and objects in connecting with history. We’ll be back with more Revere House Radio next spring!

• The map, presented on our blog
• Short biography of Salem Poor from American Battlefield Trust
• Book: Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860 by George Levesque
• Book: Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
• Article: The Forgotten Legacy of Boston’s Historic Black Graveyard by Dart Adams
• Book: Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860 by Joanne Pope Melish
• Book: Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a native of Africa, who was enslaved in childhood, and died in Boston, January 3, 1815

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