New England’s Abolitionist History At Odds With Racist Realities

Pat Wilson Pheanious is a Connecticut state representative whose distant relatives are among the first to be memorialized in the Witness Stones Project, which honors the lives of enslaved people in Guilford, Connecticut. Photo Credit: Joe Amon / Connecticut Public / NENC

Witness Stones Project Co-Chair Pat Wilson Pheanious was a guest on a Vermont Public Radio radio series produced by the New England News Collaborative and America Amplified. The focus of the episode was New England’s direct involvement and complicity in slavery and white supremacy.

We invite you to listen to the program here: Racism in New England.