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St. Matthew’s Aims to Tell the Story of Wilton’s Forgotten Enslaved people

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Members of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton stand in the cemetery, a site where some members believe former enslaved persons to be buried.

By J.D. Freda in The Hour on June 19, 2022

WILTON — St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church is committing itself to educating the community and paying tribute to the enslaved peoples of Wilton.

The goal is to spend the remainder of the calendar year digging through historical land and personal records, with the help of the Wilton Historical Society, to tell a proper story of an enslaved Wiltonian whose history has been lost in time. When the research has been completed, the church community anticipates a permanent, physical memorialization, in the form of a stone, somewhere in town to pay tribute to that individual. Continue reading.

Witness Stone Project Remembers Forgotten Connecticut Slaves

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By Amber Diaz on NBC Connecticut on June 15, 2022

The Witness Stones Project is a K-12 educational initiative started in Connecticut. Its mission is to “restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved people who helped build our communities.”

As a former eighth grade history teacher with a passion for the past, Dennis Culliton understands each story of an enslaved person is different, but equally as important as the next. It drove him to start the project, emulated after the Stolpersteine in Germany.

“I saw the power of this unknown history, this hidden history that was there in the archives that was sitting there and whom better than the students to tell that story,” Culliton said. Continue reading.

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