Tag: #LoisTrittonCT88
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Connecticut Project Lays Stones to Commemorate Former Enslaved People
By Andrew DaRosa in the Connecticut Post on June 15, 2022 Gathered at the Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven one early June morning, students and community leaders came together as part of a ceremony to honor the lives of emancipated slaves Lucy and Lois Tritton. The Trittons were purchased at an auction…
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Witness Stones Shed Light On New Haven’s History Of Enslavement Downtown
By Al Larriva-Latt in Arts Council New Haven on June 6th, 2022 At the steps of the Trinity Episcopal Church on the New Haven Green, a dozen New Haven private middle schoolers in dress clothes crouched around two metal-plated stones. To the right, colorful posters displayed family trees, timelines, and key word definitions. The students…
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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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The Last Sale in New Haven
By Adrienne Joy Burns in the Yale Alumni Magazine, January/February 2022 My great-great-grandmother was born in South Carolina and was an enslaved person. When I did research about her, in Charleston, South Carolina, I was able to go and see a slave market—unlike in New Haven, where you cannot see the place where Lois and Lucy…