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Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Titus

WSP · May 11, 2022 ·

Monday, June 13, 2022
4:45 p.m.
Hosted by the Mansfield Middle School at
The Mansfield Public Library
54 Warrenville Road, Mansfield Center, Connecticut

Mansfield Middle School will bring the community together to remember and honor Titus and to place a Witness Stones in his memory.

Mansfield Middle School Students Participate in Witness Stones Project

WSP · Mar 25, 2022 ·

Connor Cobb stands by his Witness Stone table at an event held at Mansfield Middle School on March 24. (Melanie Savage)
By Melanie Savage in the Hartford Courant on March 25, 2022
MANSFIELD — Mansfield Middle School grade 8 students have completed their research on a man named Titus, an enslaved man born in Mansfield on February 17, 1743. Students’ research was inspired by the Witness Stones Project, an educational initiative that includes collaborative learning and civic engagement for purposes of honoring the humanity of enslaved individuals. The Witness Stones Project was inspired by the Stolpersteine memorial project, and began in Guilford in 2017. Continue reading.

Witness Stones Project to Partner with Mansfield Middle School to Recover the History of the Enslaved

WSP · May 15, 2021 ·

The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Mansfield Middle School. The middle school in Storrs Mansifield, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history of slavery in colonial Connecticut.

Students will examine primary source documents, such property, church, and vital records; wills and probate inventories; and census data, in order to understand the reality of slavery and to restore the memory of those individuals who were enslaved. They will learn how to document and describe the dehumanization and paternalism of slavery; the economic and legal framework that supported slavery; and, the agency, resistance, and contributions of the enslaved to our local and national history. Finally, these students will be inviting their communities to witness as they install memorial stones for individuals who were enslaved in their town. 

Mansfield Middle School in Northeast Connecticut serves 550 students in grades five to eight. Using interdisciplinary teams of teachers and differentiated instruction in a heterogeneous classroom environment, they strive to ensure that every student reaches her/his greatest potential.

 

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