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Greenwich’s “Forgotten” Enslaved Population: Witness Stones Project Seeks to Tell Their Stories

WSP · Feb 12, 2022 ·

Grave stones of former Bush-Holley House enslaved laborers Hester Mead, left, and her mother Candice Bush are at Union Cemetery in Greenwich, Conn. Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Hester was born in 1807 and freed in 1828, while her mother Candice was born in 1780 and freed in 1825.

by Robert Marchant on February 12, 2022 in the Greenwich Time

GREENWICH — Few markers of slavery exist in southern Connecticut, reminders of a time when men and women were bought and sold like property or livestock.

Two of them stand at Union Cemetery in Greenwich — the headstones of Hester Mead and her mother Candice Bush, both born into slavery at the Bush homestead in Cos Cob, now the site of the Greenwich Historical Society. Continue reading.

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