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 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 ...

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 ...