Museum
Faneuil Hall
1 Faneuil Hall Sq, Boston, MA 02109, USA
Colonial market hall and revolutionary meeting space, funded by profits from the slave trade.
This guide to Faneuil Hall opens with Peter Faneuil, the Boston merchant who financed the building in the early 1740s on a fortune built largely from goods produced by enslaved labor, and traces what the record shows about the people he personally held. It then follows the hall upstairs into 1770, when bodies from the Boston Massacre lay in state here before Samuel Adams addressed a packed crowd. Look up at the gilded grasshopper weathervane above the hall as you listen.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.