Boston Brahmins Posts

Jill Sim looks at family connections to Boston Brahmin religious circles, and a segregated church culture during the period of rapid change given by immigration waves to Boston.  Within the complexities of a family’ of color’s tenuous standing in t…

My great-great grandfather Robert Williamson Hemmings (1841-1908), as he looked c. 1886. Jill looks at Boston Brahmins, the White Anglo Saxon Protestant class, and their ordered-up caste structure of the 19th century in the context of the Hemming…