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    "label": "Plan of the city of Boston",
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    "title": "Plan of the city of Boston",
    "description": "During the antebellum period, Boston had a thriving free African American community. By 1860, more than half the city’s black population of 2,000 lived on the north slope of Beacon Hill adjacent to the Massachusetts State House. This neighborhood became a center for Boston’s abolitionist movement and many fugitive slaves escaping via the Underground Railroad found refuge here. A portion of this neighborhood is depicted on a sheet from an 1861 fire-insurance atlas. Of particular interest are the church and school on the alley (today’s Smith Court) off Joy Street, marking the location of the African Meeting House, the oldest extant black church building in the United States, and the Abiel Smith School, the only black public school in Boston until 1855, when schools were integrated.",
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    "year": 1861,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6h446v461",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "G1234_B6G475_P5_1861x_0019",
    "creators": [
        "Pinney, C.",
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
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        "Boston and New England Maps",
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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        "Real property--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps",
        "Boston (Mass.)--Maps"
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        "Massachusetts",
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        "Suffolk (county)",
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        "Digitization made possible with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources."
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