Witness Stones Project, Inc.

Restoring History & Honoring Humanity

Lecture

Understanding Slavery in the North

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Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition invited Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Dennis Culliton and community historian Adrienne Joy Burns to speak at one of their Brown Bag Lunch Talks.

We invite you to listen to their conversation with GLC Director David Blight:

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, a part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning slavery and its legacies across all borders and all time. This includes the chattel slave system and its destruction as well as contemporary forms of coerced labor. The Center seeks to foster an improved understanding of the role of slavery, slave resistance, and abolition in the functioning of the modern world by promoting interaction and exchange between scholars, teachers, and public historians through publications, educational outreach, and other programs and events.

Remapping New England: Monuments, Markers, and Collective Memory

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Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton joined Representative Rachel Talbot Ross of the Portland Freedom Trail, Charles Roberts of Rhode Island Slave History Medallions, JerriAnne Boggis of Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire and moderator Dr. Kate McMahon of the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture for a conversation about public memory and representation.

We invite you to listen to their conversation:

The panel was presented Indigo Arts Alliance and The Atlantic Black Box Project.

Indigo Arts Alliance‘s mission is to build global connections by bringing together Black and Brown artists from diverse backgrounds to engage in their creative process with an opportunity to serve as both mentors and mentees. An integral aspect of the Indigo vision is to provide Maine based artists of African descent access to a broader range of practicing artists of color from around the world.

The Atlantic Black Box Project is researching and reckoning with New England’s role in the global economy of enslavement

Witness Stones & Hard History

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On August 3, 2020 Witness Stones Project Co-Chair and Connecticut Representative Patricia Wilson Pheanious and Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton took part in a Connecticut Association of Independent Schools Workshop on Teaching Hard History.

We invite you to watch their address here:

The Connecticut Association of Independent Schools is a voluntary association of 93 non-profit independent schools serving over 30,000 students. It is the mission of CAIS to serve both independent education and the children and families of Connecticut by:

  • working to foster independence and freedom of choice in education
  • giving leadership and support to member schools in their pursuit of excellence, access, diversity and accountability
  • fostering collaboration among member schools, and cooperation with other educational organizations and the public sphere
  • providing appropriate services in keeping with models of best practice for each aspect of school life.

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