Black community transformed post-Civil War Melrose

Published February 19, 2021

This is the second part of a series.

By JAMES BENNETT

Melrose Historical Commission

MELROSE — They came down from Canada, returning to the country their parents had escaped, believing it had been transformed.

They sailed up from the Caribbean, hoping for something better than the exhausting heat and hard labor…

 

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