Rights and Race, an exhibition and multi-year programming initiative at Hadwen House, explores the island’s history of social justice, civil rights, and racial equality. Interpretive signage displayed throughout the Rights and Race exhibit, by Marianne Kelley at The Design Cove.
Hadwen House, named after whaling merchant William Hadwen, is perhaps the grandest of Nantucket’s nineteenth-century Main Street mansions. Given the family’s strong interest in social activism and also the home’s proximity to New Guinea, a section of Nantucket town that in the 18th and 19th centuries housed a predominantly black community, the Nantucket Historical Association is repurposing this historic site as a forum for Rights and Race.
