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Witness Stones Project Memorial for Tamer

WSP · Oct 30, 2020 ·

This 1777 bill of sale for an enslaved girl named Tamer is one of the many treasured documents archived in the Kent Memorial Library’s historical room. Photo credit: Bill Sullivan, Suffield Historical Society.

By Bill Sullivan, Suffield Historical Society, published in the Suffield Observer on October 30, 2020.

The Suffield Historical Society hosted Dennis Culliton, chair and co-founder of the Witness Stones Project, during three online classes during October. Using a document-based approach to understanding slavery in colonial New England, Culliton helped the class build a narrative about an enslaved woman named Tamar by examining a bill of sale document, a marriage record, and other historical records. Continue reading.

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