All Men Free and Brethren – Essays on the History of African American Freemason…

All Men Free and BrethrenEssays on the History of African American Freemasonry\nAuthor(s): Peter P. Hinks, Stephen Kantrowitz, Leslie A. Lewis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801450303, 978-0801450303\nSynopsis\nIn early March 1775, an Irish soldier initiated a dozen or more black Bostonian men into a lodge of Freemasons, making them probably the first people of African descent formally admitted into Freemasonry in the Atlantic world. Prince Hall, a freedman, would emerge as the leader of this group as they worked together to establish a tradition of African American Freemasonry that has persisted ever sincea tradition that still carries his name. \n\n All Men Free and Brethren is the first in-depth historical consideration of Prince Hall freemasonry from the Revolutionary era to the early decades of the twentieth century. Through a growing network of lodges, African American Masons together promot.