Hamilton Hall 2020 Americana Lecture

Sunday, November 15 at 6:00 pm

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The 2020 Hamilton Hall Americana Lecture, “Untold African American Stories,” will be presented virtually by biographer Adelaide Solomon-Jordan. Ms. Solomon-Jordan shares a special connection to Hamilton Hall, as she is a cousin of the Remond family.

About the Lecture

Ms. Solomon-Jordan will focus on three sisters in her own ancestral line: Cara, Nina Louise, and Mary Elizabeth Saunders. Through these women’s captivating life stories, she will highlight how our country was populated not only by people of African descent who came to America enslaved, but also those who freely immigrated.

The Saunders sisters emigrated from Bermuda to the US at the turn of the 20th century, and each woman married into a historically significant family. Connections to the American Revolution, abolitionism, business, education, and culture are part of their unique narratives. The three sisters’ married lives demonstrate the scope and depth of the African descent presence across the years of America’s existence.

About the Speaker

Ms. Solomon-Jordan, a Connecticut native, spent childhood summers in the Massachusetts Berkshires. She is the biographer of the lives of ordinary New Englanders of the 18th and 19th centuries. Currently residing in Western Maine, Ms. Jordan has a special interest in her maternal family which dates to the early 1700s in Western Massachusetts. She is an honorary member of the Dalton Historical Commission. Her research interest also includes her paternal ancestors of Grand Cayman, BWI.

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Published by Meadow Dibble

Meadow Dibble is Director of Community-Engaged Research at the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations and founding Director of Atlantic Black Box, a nonprofit devoted to researching and reckoning with New England’s role in the slave trade and the economy of enslavement. She is currently in her third year as a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Meadow received her Doctorate from Brown’s Department of French with a focus on Postcolonial studies and taught Francophone African literature at Colby College from 2005–08. Originally from Cape Cod, she lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula, where she published a cultural magazine and coordinated foreign study programs. In 2016, Meadow experienced a brutal awakening to the reality of her hometown’s deep investment in the global slave economy. Ever since, she has been researching complicity among Cape Cod’s sea captains while developing The Atlantic Black Box Project.

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