Tag: #NewHavenCT
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Witness Stones Affiliate Teacher Honored
In Zip06.com on August 28, 2024 With ties to Branford in her family history and a love of history and her community, Kaitlyn Goodwin is helping the Branford Historical Society (BHS) develop exciting new educational programs and create social media connections in the 21st century. Kaitlyn is a member of the Goss family, one of…
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Witness Stone Honors Enslaved New Havener
By Kate Goodwin and Jonathan Q. Berryman in the New Haven Independent on May 23, 2024 On May 21, James Hillhouse High School students, faculty, and community members gathered in front of City Hall’s Amistad Memorial to unveil a Witness Stone to Jack Woolsey, who was enslaved in New Haven in the 1790s. Jack Woolsey was…
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The Witness Stones at the Foote School
Students from the Foote School began working with the Witness Stones Project in 2019. In 2023, they created a website to document their research. Please click here to visit their site.
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William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund Supports New Witness Stones Project Partnership
The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with James Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut. This new collaboration is funding by a generous gift from the William Caspar Graustein…
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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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Lives Of Enslaved Couple Honored on Juneteenth At Pardee-Morris House
Ellyn Santiago for Patch.com on June 6, 2022 NEW HAVEN, CT —Stepna Primus, a “husband and farmer,” was enslaved by Amos Morris, Issac Forbes, and Enos Heminway, at the Morris house in New Haven. In 1796, Primus was emancipated. Also enslaved at the Morris House was his wife, Pink, “mother, wife and landowner,” who…
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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.…
