Category: Lecture
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England with Dr. Jared Hardesty
The local initiative, Slavery in Guilford: Witness to History, will present a webinar with Dr. Jared Hardesty. Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of…
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Witness Stones Project Presented by the Branford Historical Society
The Branford Historical Society welcomed the Witness Stones Project on November 10, 2021. We invite you to watch the lecture here:
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Yale University & the Politics of Slavery
Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford presented the webinar “Yale University & the Politics of Slavery” on November 4, 2021 The talk was given by Bennett Parten, a doctoral candidate and a member of the Yale and Slavery Group which the institution’s president created and charged with studying the University’s history.
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Race, Slavery, and Yale’s Construction of Its Memory
In October 2021, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University hosted its 23rd annual conference, Yale & Slavery in Historical Perspective. During the concluding roundtable, Adrienne Joy Burns, Physician Assistant at Smilow Cancer Center and member of the Amistad Committee, discussed how the Witness Stones Project and…
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Yale University and the Politics of Slavery
“Yale University & the Politics of Slavery” is the next talk in the webinar series co-sponsored by Guilford’s Witness Stones Project Affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford. The talk will be given by Bennett Parten, a doctoral candidate and a member of the Yale and Slavery Group which the institution’s president created and…
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Religion, Race and Slavery in Colonial New England with Dr. Ken Minkema
Local Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History presented this lecture at the Guilford Free Library.
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Religion, Race, and Slavery in Colonial New England
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Let’s Not Fight the Civil War Again
By Jackie Hemond in the Suffield Observer on June 30, 2021 In June, I witnessed an amazing dialogue. For two days, the Phelps-Hatheway House hosted two programs, both featuring Joe McGill, a national figure and founder of the Slave Dwelling Project. The hook for the Project is ingenious. McGill sleeps in slave quarters for a night.…
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Oral History and the African American Experience
Hear Tamara Lanier explain how buying a salad at an ice cream store and a promise to her dying mother led to discovering that Harvard University possessed images of her enslaved great, great, great grandfather, Renty Taylor, and his daughter, Delia. Learn how oral history, research and luck led to that discovery and how…
