Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford presented this webinar on January 13, 2022 through the Guilford Free Library.
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Witness Stones Project Among Guilford Recipients of Humanities Grants
By Ellyn Santiago in the Guilford Patch on January 12, 2022
GUILFORD, CT — Guilford’s arts community will soon be enriched with the announcement Wednesday by state Sen. Christine Cohen about a quarter million in state arts grants.
The funds were awarded to nearly two-dozen shoreline arts and humanities organizations to “help them financially survive during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,” Cohen said.
The local grants are part of 624 statewide grants to different non-profit museums and cultural, humanities, and arts organizations totaling $16 million, and they are part of the $30.7 million in grants allocated by the state legislature to CT Humanities over the next two years. Continue reading.
Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England with Dr. Jared Hardesty
The local initiative, Slavery in Guilford: Witness to History, will present a webinar with Dr. Jared Hardesty.
Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of the population, but slavery had become instrumental to the region’s economy and had shaped its cultural traditions. This story of slavery in New England has been little told.
In this talk, Jared Hardesty will discuss his book, Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds, focusing on how and why he wrote the book. He also will explore the lives of enslaved people in New England and larger issues such as the importance of slavery to the colonization of the region and to agriculture and industry, New England’s deep connections to Caribbean plantation societies, and the significance of emancipation movements in the era of the American Revolution.
Jared Ross Hardesty is associate professor of history at Western Washington University and a scholar of colonial America, the Atlantic world, and the histories of labor and slavery. He is the author of Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston (New York: NYU Press, 2016), which explores the relationship between slavery and other forms of dependence in eighteenth-century Boston, and Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England (Amherst & Boston: Bright Leaf, 2019).
This program will be presented as a webinar and registration is required.