Category: Witness Stones
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School of the Holy Child 2024 Ceremony
Students from School of the Holy Child gathered to honor the life of Peg Lyon. We invite you to watch highlights from the ceremony here.
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Timberlane Middle School Remembers the Enslaved of Hopewell Valley
Students from Timberlane Middle School gathered the community to share their recovered history of Nance and her family. We invite you to watch the ceremony and discover the children’s artwork and essays by clicking the image below.
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Historical Society Celebrates the Humanity of Greenwich’s Enslaved at Ceremony
From the Greenwich Sentinel on May 16, 2024 Four enslaved individuals who resided at Bush-Holley House in the 18th and 19th centuries were honored at a ceremony on April 26th at Greenwich Historical Society in collaboration with the Witness Stones Project, an organization dedicated to restoring the history and humanity of enslaved persons of color who…
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Witness Stones Project Receives Historic Preservation Award
The Somerset County (NJ) Cultural & Heritage Commission recognized the Witness Stones Project alongside the Friends of the Abraham Staats House, the South Bound Brook School District, and the Robert Morris School for We Were Here ~ The Enslaved People of Colonial America: An Inclusive History Partnership Project. Through this project, eighth-grade students brought local history…
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Collaborative Effort Installs Witness Stone to Honor Cambridge Gould in Branford
By Pam Johnson in The Sound on May 4, 2024 A Witness Stone to honor Cambridge Gould, an enslaved man who lived in Branford circa 1757, was installed May 3 outside First Congregational Church through a collaborative effort. The event included a presentation at the church with students and teachers of Branford High School (BHS) Social Studies…
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Branford Students Honor Formerly Enslaved Man with Witness Stone Installation
By Sydney Boyo on NBC Connecticut on May 3, 2024
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The Witness Stones Project Unearths and Shares Stories of Northern Slavery
By Diane Orson on May 1, 2024 on NPR’s All Things Considered For centuries, stories of northern slavery were not easy to find. Understanding slavery in this project involves learning the stories of those enslaved — and bearing witness. We invite you to listen to this NPR story about how the Witness Stones Project is…
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Greenwich Students Unearth History of 4 More of Town’s Enslaved People for Historical Markers
By Robert Marchant on April 27, 2024 in the Greenwich Time GREENWICH — The lives of enslaved laborers who toiled on the fields, stables and kitchens of Greenwich in the 1700s and 1800s has been obscured for centuries, but remnants of their lives are slowly being recovered and marked thanks to the work of local educators,…
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Painting a More Complete Picture: “Unnamed Figures” Highlights Black Presence and Absence in Early American History
By Chris Larabee in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on April 18, 2024 In partnership with the American Folk Art Museum, Historic Deerfield is presenting an exhibition on the unexplored histories of Black people in early America. “Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North” explores Black representation in paintings, needlework, ceramics and other media…
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Unforgetting – Restoring and Reclaiming Connecticut’s Hidden Histories
A panel of experts talks about efforts to uncover long-ignored stories and recalibrate our understanding of Connecticut’s historical involvement with slavery. Former State Representative Pat Wilson Pheanious shares her family’s story in Connecticut Public’s new series Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery; Akeia de Barros Gomes, Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories at the Mystic…