In 1742, the same year his hall was inaugurated, one of his ships, the Jolly Batchelor, sailed from Boston to Sierra Leone, returning with 20 kidnapped Africans. Faneuil lived just long enough to ...
In economic collapse — “dying on the vine,” as U.S. News and World Report described it in the late 1950s — Boston’s Old World sense of itself as a New World European village was crumbling as surely as ...