NEW BEDFORD — Herman Melville’s life-size statue will adorn the grounds of New Bedford’s historic Seamen’s Bethel where the author stopped before going out to sea, and which was the ...

She also applauded the removal of the statue of another racist, but less widely-known, figure from America’s history. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — New Bedford’s latest piece of public art will honor its legacy as the Whaling City: a statue of “Moby-Dick” author Herman Melville. The city kicked off its annu ...

That house right there is where Frederick Douglass lived when he escaped from slavery. He slipped uh like so many did uh into New Bedford by way of both of the so-called Maritime Underground ...

A life-size statue of Herman Melville will be installed on the grounds of the Seamen’s Bethel in 2026. In 1830, the New Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen began offering ...