Built in 1742 in Boston, Massachusetts, Faneuil Hall was a meeting house well-known as a platform of oration across various causes. It was here that American colonists first opposed the Sugar Act in 1764, declaring "no taxation without representation," and where Samuel Adams rallied support for independence from Britain. In the 1800s, it became a key meeting place for various local abolitionist groups, including the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, which hosted the annual National Anti-Slavery Bazaar at Faneuil Hall for nearly a decade.