Historian Seth Goldstein will take you on a virtual walking tour of Portland’s Old Port Neighborhood. Topics discussed will include the Indigenous People of the region and their early conflicts with European colonists, the relationship between Indigenous and African slavery, Portland’s historic Black community, and both the Underground Railroad and Abolition Movement in Portland.
Meadow Dibble, Director of Atlantic Black Box, will introduce this public history project that empowers communities throughout New England to research and reckon with New England’s role in Atlantic world slavery.
Meadow Dibble, Ph.D. is a writer, researcher, and antiracist historical recovery advocate working to surface New England's suppressed narratives through her practice Public History & Education Consulting LLC. In 2018 she founded Atlantic Black Box, a grassroots public history project that empowers communities throughout the Northeast to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with the region’s complicity in the slave trade and the global economy of enslavement. Meadow serves as Project Lead on the Place Justice Project for the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations.
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Excellect backgroundd tour for Portland slavery related history.
Excellect backgroundd tour for Portland slavery related history.