In 1729, a free Black man named Boston was laid to rest. Nearly 300 years later, history found him again
Boston free Black man gravestone: A nearly 300-year-old gravestone rediscovered in Boston has revealed the story of Boston, a formerly enslaved man who lived free and died in 1729. His restored tombstone may be one of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America.
The Economic Times ·