The keeper spent the afternoon walking the African American Freedom Trail.
It started at the Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Massachusetts Regiment Monument that memorialized
the black regiment that fought in the Revolutionary War. The monument includes the soldiers because Robert G. Shaw's parents, abolitionists, insisted that the sculptor include them. It was supposed to take two years to sculpt the man on the horse. But it took 14 years to finish it with all the soldiers. When it was installed in 1899, the remaining surviving members of the militia marched to the statehouse for the celebration.
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