And my character that I'm portraying is
actually a man named Salem Poor. You probably
haven't heard of him. Salem Poor was an African-American slave back in the
seventeen hundreds but he actually
bought his freedom for twenty-two pounds
at the age of 27, all right? So this
African-American man bought his freedom, and that is
not something that people did back in those days. It's very much a new, new concept a very
new idea back in Boston. After that I
joined James Fry's Regiment in the battle
known as the Battle of Bunker Hill. In
that battle I am charged right and I
praised by people like George Washington
and John Adams for brutally murdering
several British infantry men and a
British Colonel officers for me a
slave who bought their freedom, is praised and charged by
people like George Washington John Adams, that is very very influential.
Something like that never happened before.
It helps for me because a lot of people at the foundation are history buffs,
and history majors and history people, but I came from a theater background
So it was different. Getting to learn about all this history.
Like, history is really cool.
History is a lot of people being in the right place at the right time.
By learning and learning you kind of just see like the people that kind of shape this country, you know. And it was very very fun to learn
about all that stuff like Paul Revere, Sam
Adams, John Hancock, you know Boston Revolution
the American Revolution.
A day! So I get ready, I get into costume and then I head out. If I'm doing a private tour I kind of just meet the group,
If I'm doing a public tour I meet thirty minutes before and there's a selling period.
We can get really we can get really small groups of about five people,
we can get really big groups of about sixty people! And kind of just take them around for 90 minutes,
And you know talk to them about
the different sites my thing is our I
express on my tour at the end of it I do
not care if you don't know who Paul Revere is,
just have fun. My entire tour is just based on jokes, and
witty puns and a lot of us here at the
Freedom Trail Foundation are actors and also
stand-up comics. So, you'll have fun take our tours!
