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Prince Hall and Prince Hall Freemasonry

d. 1807; lodge founded 1775

Boston, Massachusetts

Prince Hall, a formerly enslaved Bostonian, and fourteen other Black men were initiated as Masons in 1775; their African Lodge, chartered from London in 1787, became the root of Prince Hall Freemasonry.

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Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Boston, c. 1900s, where Prince Hall is buried
Credit: Detroit Publishing Co., Library of Congress. License: Public domain (no known restrictions on publication).

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Sources

  1. PBS, Africans in America, "Prince Hall" (Reference)
  2. Scottish Rite, NMJ, "Prince Hall Freemasonry" (Reference)

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