Tag: #NewHavenCT
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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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Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Lois and Lucy Tritton
Thursday, June 2, 2022 10:00 a.m. Hosted by the Foote School & St. Thomas’s Day School at Trinity Church on the Green 230 Temple Street, New Haven, Connecticut The Foote School and St. Thomas’s Day School will bring the community together to remember and honor Lois and Lucy Tritton and to place Witness Stones in…
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Trinity on the Green to Partner with the Witness Stones Project
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 Trinity on the Green. The Episcopal church sin New Haven, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s research and landscape markers to expand…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with St. Thomas’s Day School
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 St. Thomas’s Day School. The school in New Haven, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their…
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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…
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Yale University & the Politics of Slavery
Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford presented the webinar “Yale University & the Politics of Slavery” on November 4, 2021 The talk was given by Bennett Parten, a doctoral candidate and a member of the Yale and Slavery Group which the institution’s president created and charged with studying the University’s history.
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Race, Slavery, and Yale’s Construction of Its Memory
In October 2021, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University hosted its 23rd annual conference, Yale & Slavery in Historical Perspective. During the concluding roundtable, Adrienne Joy Burns, Physician Assistant at Smilow Cancer Center and member of the Amistad Committee, discussed how the Witness Stones Project and…
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Witness Stones Unearth New Haven’s History Of Enslavement
By Lucy Gellman on Arts Council Greater New Haven on June 4, 2021 Sixth grader Kymani Chapman held a heavy cube steady in both hands, the letters on its face glinting. A name caught in the light: Stepna Primus, once enslaved by Amos Morris, Isaac Forbes and Enos Hemmingway in New Haven. Chapman steadied himself, feet spread…
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Foote School Students Recover the Life of Pink Primus
Students from the Foote School gathered at the Pardee-Morris House on June 2, 2021, to remember the life of Pink Primus. Students read original poetry and displayed the infographics they created to share the life of Pink with their community.
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Witness Stones Will Recall Lives of Enslaved Individuals in New Haven
From the New Haven Museum New Haven, Conn. (May 18, 2021)— Students from The Foote School will install commemorative Witness Stones Memorials recalling the lives of Pink and Stepna, two enslaved individuals who once lived in the Morris House, now known as the Pardee-Morris House, during a ceremony at the site on June 2, 2021,…