Category: Student Work
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Country School Students Tell the Stories of Slavery in Their Community
From The Country School, published April 2020. Eighth Graders at the School began participating in the Witness Stones Project in the fall of 2019, setting out to tell an untold story about a woman named Lettuce Bailey, who was enslaved in Madison, Connecticut, until she was freed in the late 18th century, first in 1791…
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Country School Students Seek to Research, Honor Lives of Local Enslaved Persons
By Jesse Williams on Zip06.com on November 20, 2019 MADISON — While slavery has remained a consistent, underlying thread causing harm and affecting communities throughout the country, the realities of what slavery looked like in any given place often remains unexplored, according to Dennis Culliton, a former Guilford teacher who has made it his mission…
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Renbrook School Students Share Their Work
Fifth graders in the Renbrook School’s Social Studies, Language Arts, and Arts Class share their work with the Witness Stones Project.
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Witness Stones Project Honors Prut
From the Kingswood Oxford School on June 3, 2019 History teacher Katie McCarthy’s Form 5 class addressed our nation’s complicated and painful history of slavery by participating in the Witness Stones Project which “seeks to restore the history and to honor the humanity and contributions of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities” according…