Fire and Thunder: Massachusetts Black Soldiers in the Civil War Exhibit

For the month of April, the Fire and Thunder 16 panel exhibit will be on display in the Adult Collections Room for the public to view during library hours.

“The institution of slavery was a disease deeply embedded in the tissue of the new American republic. Though abolished in Massachusetts in the 1780s, on the national stage it survived, to be destroyed only after a long and bloody civil war. “Fire and Thunder” tells the story of how black soldiers in Massachusetts fought — in the press, on the streets, from the pulpit, the lecture podium, and the battlefield — in defense of human dignity and freedom.”

This exhibit is free to the public and is on loan from the Commonwealth Museum.