Maria Weston Chapman: Weymouth Abolitionist
This class will be rescheduled for Fall 2023.
About the Class: Maria Weston Chapman is an interactive history class series from the Weymouth Historical Society that focuses on the woman named Maria Weston Chapman from Weymouth, Massachusetts, who led the abolitionist cause in Boston alongside her sisters and William Lloyd Garrison during the 1830s until her death in 1885 in her family home in Weymouth. We begin by talking about Maria Weston's family and her education in England where she first became familiar with the cause for abolition through her uncle Joshua Bates (also from Weymouth). We will explore the greater world around her and how she impacted the abolitionist movement at home and abroad as her group tried to end slavery here in the United States for thirty years prior to the American Civil War. During this history class series, you will discover how a girl from Weymouth grew up to change the United States through her fight for abolition. The series is comprised of four classes, meeting once a week for a month.
Becoming Weymouth: The Colonial Era
This class will be rescheduled for Fall 2023.
About the Class: “Becoming Weymouth: The Colonial Era” is an interactive history class series from the Weymouth Historical Society (WHS) that focuses on the Colonial Era in Weymouth, Massachusetts. We begin by talking about the Massachusett Nation before Thomas Weston sends his company to Wessagussett from England in 1622, and end with the marriage of Abigail Smith to John Adams in October of 1764. During this history class series, you will learn what was happening right here in Weymouth and how what happened here at home connected to, and affected, the larger world around us during the New England Colonial Era. The series is comprised of four classes, meeting once a week for a month.