Witness Stones Project Memorial for Tamer

This 1777 bill of sale for an enslaved girl named Tamer is one of the many treasured documents archived in the Kent Memorial Library’s historical room. Photo credit: Bill Sullivan, Suffield Historical Society.

By Bill Sullivan, Suffield Historical Society, published in the Suffield Observer on October 30, 2020.

The Suffield Historical Society hosted Dennis Culliton, chair and co-founder of the Witness Stones Project, during three online classes during October. Using a document-based approach to understanding slavery in colonial New England, Culliton helped the class build a narrative about an enslaved woman named Tamar by examining a bill of sale document, a marriage record, and other historical records. Continue reading.