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Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery

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Witness Stones Project Chair Pat Wilson Pheanious will join a panel of experts as they discuss efforts to uncover long-ignored stories and recalibrate our understanding of Connecticut’s historical involvement with slavery.

She will be joined by Akeia de Barros Gomes, Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories at the Mystic Seaport Museum previews the upcoming exhibition Entwined: Freedom, Sovereignty and the Sea; and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Blight discusses the new book Yale and Slavery: A History. Panelists will talk about the projects and explore big questions that have led to this moment. Moderated by Diane Orson, Special Correspondent with Connecticut Public.

The panel is part of a new series: Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery, Connecticut Public and the Connecticut Museum. Refreshments will be available at the start of the event.

TICKETS
$10 General Admission
$5 Connecticut Museum Members and CT Public Members
Free for Connecticut Museum NARM Members

 

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.