Truro Event | What Happened Here? Surfacing Cape Cod’s Connections to Slavery and Colonization with Meadow Dibble on 8/21

Hosted by Truro’s Highland House Museum

August 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6 Highland Light Road
North Truro, MA 02652

Join us at the Highland House Museum as we welcome Dr. Meadow Dibble on a discussion of slavery on Cape Cod. We will also welcome Steven Philbrick, who generously donated a document of the sale of an enslaved boy Hector from Jonathan Paine of Truro to Benjamin Collins of Truro.

Meadow Dibble will offer an overview of the region’s entanglements in the global economy of enslavement, exploring with participants what we now know, what we have yet to learn, how we came to suffer from collective amnesia, and why there is a role for each of us to play in the work of historical recovery as we seek to cultivate inclusive and equitable communities today.

Meadow Dibble, Ph.D. is a writer, researcher, and antiracist historical recovery advocate working to surface New England’s suppressed narratives. She founded Atlantic Black Box Project, 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.