Category: Student Work
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Remembering Flora
By Ella Montalvo, Class of 2022, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School It is scary to imagine that these people suffered on the very grass we walk on in our town but it isn’t any better for it to be the grass that others in the South walk on. Flora was an enslaved person in Guilford,…
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Remembering Cuff
By Teagan Connellan, Class of 2022, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School No birth records. No death records. No marriage records. No working records. Someone who wasn’t even seen as a person. Someone who would be traded or worth a unit of dollars. Someone who was with five different people in his lifetime. Not as family.…
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Witness Stones Project Reflection
By Daven Kaphar, Class of 2022, The Foote School I enjoyed the Witness Stones Project. I learned so much more about slavery in early America, but I found the story of Lois Tritton especially shocking. For a long time Lois and her mother thought they were free, just to be sold back in to slavery.…
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Witness Stones Project Reflection
By Gus Witt, Class of 2022, The Foote School This Witness Stones project was the most challenging and intriguing academic work I have ever done. I knew a bit about slavery in the United States prior to the Witness Stones research, but the new information from this research gave me a distinct perspective and distinct…
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Witness Stones Project Students Take History to the Street
Through a project a year in the making, West Hartford will renamed a road in Blue Back Square to honor a mother and daughter who were held as slaves in town in the 18th century.
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West Hartford to Rename Street in Honor of Two Enslaved Women
By Deidre Montague in the Hartford Courant on May 19, 2022 WEST HARTFORD — The West Hartford Town Council unanimously agreed to change the name of a city street this week, a small move that points to a larger goal — changing the town’s physical landscape to bear witness to its history and culture. New…
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West Hartford Will Name Street After 2 Enslaved Women
By Gabby DeBenedictis on Patch.com on May 19, 2022 WEST HARTFORD, CT — The West Hartford town council voted unanimously to rename New Street in Blue Back Square “Dinah Road,” and according to the Hartford Courant the name is designed to honor two women who were enslaved in town. The women, a mother and daughter both named…
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Dinah Road: New Name for New Street Approved by West Hartford Town Council
By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.com on May 16, 2022 A campaign by the Mayor’s Youth Council to rename a West Hartford roadway in honor of two women who were once enslaved in town was approved unanimously by the Town Council on May 10. Mayor’s Youth Council members Tzionya Goldfischer, a student at the New England Jewish…
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Caesar Stevenson
With the generous support of the Connecticut Valley Education Foundation, the students of Frank Ward Strong Middle School created a presentation on their work with the Witness Stones Project.