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New England’s Abolitionist History At Odds With Racist Realities

WSP · Sep 17, 2020 ·

Pat Wilson Pheanious is a Connecticut state representative whose distant relatives are among the first to be memorialized in the Witness Stones Project, which honors the lives of enslaved people in Guilford, Connecticut. Photo Credit: Joe Amon / Connecticut Public / NENC

Witness Stones Project Co-Chair Pat Wilson Pheanious was a guest on a Vermont Public Radio radio series produced by the New England News Collaborative and America Amplified. The  focus of the episode was New England’s direct involvement and complicity in slavery and white supremacy.

We invite you to listen to the program here:  Racism in New England.

“Look at the Whole Story”: CT Educators Rethink Lessons on Racism, Slavery

WSP · Jul 31, 2020 ·

Photo credit: Meghan Friedmann

By Meghan Friedmann in the New Haven Register on July 31, 2020

A team of educators hopes to empower teachers to educate their students about racism and slavery in southern New England – and to do so correctly.

A nationally-renowned scholar, two Connecticut teachers and a state representative, all of whom advocate for a reconfiguration of curricula to incorporate overlooked history lessons, are working together to deliver the program teachers next week. Continue reading.

Guilford Project Researching Slavery Finds Descendant Living in Connecticut

WSP · Nov 4, 2018 ·

Photo credit: Meghan Friedmann

By Ed Stannard in the New Haven Register on November 4, 2018

GUILFORD — Patricia Wilson Pheanious was sitting on the porch of her Ashford home when her husband came out and told her that someone was on the phone and wanted to talk about her ancestry.

Dennis Culliton, co-founder of the Witness Stones Project, in which markers are placed where enslaved Guilford residents lived or worked, had found a living descendant, the sixth-great-granddaughter of Montros and Phillis, Africans brought from Barbados to Connecticut in 1710.

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