Restoring History & Honoring Humanity
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.
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.
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.
