Prince Hall

Common card · No. 259063

Prince Hall (c. 1735/38 – December 7, 1807) was an American abolitionist and leader in the free Black community in Boston. He founded Prince Hall Freemasonry and lobbied for education rights for Black-American children. He was also active in the Back-to-Africa movement. Hall tried to gain a place for New York's enslaved and free Blacks in Freemasonry, education, and the military. Hall is considered the founder of "Black Freemasonry" in the United States, known today as Prince Hall Freemasonry. He formed the African Grand Lodge of North America, and was unanimously elected its Grand Master and served until he died in 1807. Steve Gladstone, author of Freedom Trail Boston, states that Hall was "one of the most influential free black leaders in the late 1700s". There is confusion about his birth year, place of birth, parents, and marriages, partly because there were numerous "Prince Halls" during this period.

Read on Wikipedia · Image According to the site Grand Logde of British Culumbia and Yucon[2], the portrait is unattributed.[3], Public domain