Tag: #MadisonCT
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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 Take in Poetry as They Begin to Research Slavery in Madison
By Jesse Williams in Zip06.com on December 18, 2019 MADISON — As 7th- and 8th-grade students at The Country School (TCS) prepare to delve into the history of local slavery and the lives of enslaved people as part of The Witness Stones Project, the school hosted a speaker whose words and insights helped prepare…
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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…