Inclusivity
Non-European New England Matters!
YankeeTravel.US encourages everyone — all the proverbial nations and conditions — to work with us to explore and get to know this glorious part of the world!
In the Boston Massacre, Crispus Attucks — an escaped slave with Narragansett and African family heritage — died, as did mortally wounded Irish-born Patrick Carr, among others.
Long after the odd circumstances of Samoset greeting the Pilgrims, the Algonquin people who aided our region’s first European settlers 400 years ago still contribute brilliantly to New England civilization in arts, in intellectual and civic matters, and to our growing “blue economy” and ecology. Without the efforts and examples of icons like Lucy Nicolar Poolaw and Gladys Tantaquidgeon, for example, we would know much less about ourselves.
The world owes thanks to Onesimus, and enslaved African, for convincing 17th-century Boston xenophobe Cotton Mather that smallpox epidemics could be eliminated using a practice he knew in Africa before his enslavement. Our Revolution might have failed without the heavy casualties inflicted upon the English by David Lamson and his “Old Men of Menotomy.” Enjoy reading at night? Thank Lewis Latimer for his filaments, critical to Thomas Edison’s work on lightbulbs. Just like Boston’s Donna Summer, YankeeTravel.US loves to love you!
These days, New England’s strong economy owes a great deal to Asian immigrants such as An Wang of Wang Laboratories, and more recently to Dharmesh Shah’s digital marketing darling, Hub Spot and Noubar Afeyan’s Symbiota and Indigo Ag.
YankeeTravel.US believes that responsible tourism includes representation and consideration of the significant non-European contributions to New England’s history and present. “E pluribus unum.”
