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Visit the Museum of African American History for a special documentary screening

“Jubilee, Juneteenth and the Thirteenth” explores the role that African Americans in Massachusetts played in abolition.

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The Museum of African American History, in collaboration with the Museum of Science and Massachusetts General Hospital, will host a special screening of a documentary on the role African Americans in Massachusetts played in the abolition of slavery.

The documentary, titled “Jubilee, Juneteenth and the Thirteenth,” explores the significance of the African Meetinghouse, built by and for Black people in 1906 as Boston’s first Black church, and tells the story of slavery in Massachusetts during the Colonial and American Revolutionary periods. It also addresses the 14th and 15th amendments and how the Civil War led to the Emancipation Proclamation.

The event also includes a panel discussion with Kerri Greenidge, a Tufts Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora professor; Imani McElroy, a general surgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital; and introduced by Sylvia Stevens-Edouard, the film’s executive producer and director.