heads. ...tis not for want of courage in you, for they know that they dare not face you man for man, but in a mob. Back to Africa movement Prince Hall was involved in the Back-to-Africa movement and approached the legislature to request funds for voluntary emigration to Africa. In January 1773, Prince Hall and seventy three other African-American delegates presented an emigration plea to the Massachusetts Senate. This plea, which included the contentions that African Americans are better suited to Africa's climate and lifestyle, failed. When a group of freed black men had begun a trip to Africa, they were captured and held, which reignited Hall's interest in the movement. He found that there was not sufficient momentum and support for the Back-to-Africa movement to make it a reality at the time. Copp's Hill Burying Ground Prince Hall died in 1807 and is buried in Copp's Hill Burying Ground in Boston along with other notable Bostonians from the colonial era. Thousands of other African Americans who lived in the "New Guinea" community at the base of Copp's Hill are buried alongside Snowhill Street in unmarked graves. A tribute monument was erected in Copp's Hill on June 24, 1835, in his name next to his grave marker. The inscription reads: "Here lies ye body of Prince Hall, first Grand Master of the colored Grand Lodge in Mass. Died Dec. 7, 1807" According to biographer David Gray, newspaper accounts showed that Hall died on December 4 and was buried three days later. His wife, Sylvia (Zilpha) Ward Hall, was the executrix of his estate, which amounted to $47.22, and there was no realty. Notes References Further reading Draffen of Newington, George (May 13, 1976). Prince Hall Freemasonry. Scotland: The Phylaxis Society. Reprinted at Phylaxis Society: Prince Hall Freemasonry. Edward, Bruce John (June 5, 1921). Prince Hall, the Pioneer of Negro Masonry. Proofs of the Legitimacy of Prince Hall Masonry. New York. Freemasons. Proceedings of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Granting of Warrant 459 to African Lodge, at Boston ... Sept. 29, 1884, Under the Auspices of the M.W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge F. and A. Masons. Boston: Franklin Press, 1885. Gray, David L. (2004). Inside Prince Hall (North American Edition) Lancaster VA: Anchor Communications LLC. Haunch, T.O. (Commentary on the illegitimacy of alleged Provincial Grand Master patent.) Phylaxis Society: Reviews of Prince Hall Freemasonry (retrieved December 29, 2004). Kearse, Gregory