Two lectures offered by Moffatt-Ladd House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
On Tuesday, Jan, 12, at 6:30 p.m., Dr. Jared Ross Hardesty, associate professor of history at Western Washington University will give a lecture geared toward the needs of teachers and museum educators, entitled “Confronting Slavery in Early New England: History, Sources and Interpretation.” This session will include a discussion of primary source materials; tips on finding research materials and documents; and a group discussion about incorporating primary sources into lesson plans and museum education programs. Teachers can earn credit hours upon completion.
His second presentation, “Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England,” on Thursday, Jan. 14, at 6:30 p.m. will be a shorter book lecture and discussion open to the public.
To register for a session, email Jennifer Belmont-Earl at education.moffatt.ladd@gmail.com. You will receive a Zoom link ahead of time.
Admission is free and open to the public but donations are welcome.
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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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