Robert Morris had a diverse circle of friends, family, and fellow activists in the Boston area. He petitioned and protested with antislavery and equal rights activists like Frederick Douglass, William ...

Robert Jr. They practiced together until the elder Morris’s death. Sadly, Robert Jr. died two weeks later, also in 1882. On generous loan from the Boston Athenaeum Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & ...

The Morris family eventually began worshipping at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Boston’s South End, which was connected to Boston College. Morris established connections with early Boston ...

Robert Morris, "Speech of Robert Morris, Esq. before the Committee on the Militia," Mar. 3, 1853, Robert Morris Papers, Boston Athenaeum Morris witnessed and endured discrimination on many different ...