In her book We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson examines the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women. In conversation with Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Carter Jackson will discuss force alongside other vital tactics that have shaped the Black struggle.
ABB Event | The Charter Generation: Enslavement of Native Americans in New England on 12/18/24
Join us next Wednesday as Dr. Margaret Ellen Newell of The Ohio State University's Department of History shares insights from her award-winning book Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | “Petition after Petition”: Boston’s Black Freemasons Fight for Freedom – tonight
In 1641 the Puritan commonwealth voted for the Body of Liberties and, in it, recognized inherent, natural rights for all free white men. Nearly 150 years later, Black Bostonians, members of the Freemasons' African Lodge No. 1 , petitioned the Massachusetts state government.
Website Launch: Reimagining New England Histories K-12 Curriculum Project
Brown University's Simmons Center launches an Educator’s Guide for Teaching about Historical Injustice, Sovereignty, and Freedom in the Dawnland (New England)
Opportunity | Call for Global Slavery History Fellowships (GSHF) in Amsterdam
Global Slavery History Fellowships in Amsterdam, offering three two-month long fellowships per year for curators, archivists and historians in the field of slavery history. Application due 11/20/24.
Slavery North Event | Gender, Family, and Gradual Abolition in Upper Canada and Northern Slavery, 1760-1833 on 11/20/24
Join Slavery North for a talk by Chris Gismondi aiming to unpack the uniqueness of northern slavery and resistance in Loyalist Upper Canada by analyzing enslaved family life through a gendered and decolonial feminist perspective with comparative analysis of other slave-minority demographic spaces.
ABB/WHERE Event: The Descendants Walk in York on 11/16/24
This Saturday, join us in experiencing the town of York in a new and powerful way—as the Descendants all of us are. We'll warm up over homemade soup and bread and watch a rending performance by Antonio Rocha that will open a discussion about what happened here, what each of us carries in our lineages, and what it all might mean for us today.
Book Release | In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World
This powerful collection of essays brought to life with more than 150 illustrations investigates the intertwined legacies of slavery, freedom, and capitalism. In Slavery’s Wake frames the history of slavery in a global context to show how it created systems of oppression that continue to shape the world today.
ABB Atlantic World Connections Event | Dr. Seth Rockman on Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery 10/23
The industrializing North and the agricultural South—that’s how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early 19th century. But in doing so, we miss slavery’s long reach into small New England communities, just as we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South. Join us Wednesday for an introduction to Dr. Rockman's forthcoming book.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | A Nation in Balance: Sovereignty, Earth and the Meaning of Right Relation
Aquinnah Wampanoag citizen, educator and author Linda Coombs on how Native people saw sovereignty as the right relationship to the earth.
Imagine Studios Event | Newburyport’s 4th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day gathering on 10/14/24
Join Newburyport's 4th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Event, Monday October 14th, at Newburyport Waterfront Park
Event | The Malaga Ship: A Story of Maine and the Middle Passage
On Friday, October 11th, at 7 pm in its historic sanctuary, First Parish Church will present award-winning storyteller Antonio Rocha in a performance of The Malaga Ship: A Story of Maine and the Middle Passage.
Walking Tour Event | Brookline’s Hidden History of Slavery and Freedom on 10/27/24
This lively 90-minute tour visits three sites to tell the history and stories of slavery and freedom in Brookline, MA.
Brown University Event | Slavery & Legacy Community Walking Tour
In the eighteenth century, racial slavery permeated every aspect of social and economic life in Rhode Island. The Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice’s Slavery and Legacy Walking Tour invites guests to learn about the history and legacy of slavery as it pertains to Brown University and the state of Rhode Island.
Radcliffe Event | Black Lead: The Radical Black Roots of New England Liberalism on 10/16/24
Kerri K. Greenidge’s new book complicates the idea—propagated by white nationalists and accepted as fact by most liberal-leaning historians, scholars, and commentators—that New England is a predominantly white space in which African descended people and their communities have had little political effect.
AASLH Event | Inclusive Interpretation of Slavery for America 250 and Beyond 10/30-31
Using the themes from AASLH’s Making History at 250: The Field Guide for the Semiquincentennial, we will explore ways to broaden visitors’ understanding of slavery and enslaved people’s lives during the Revolutionary Era, and the legacies of slavery that exist in our society today.
MHS Event | Racial Histories of Higher Education in New England: A Symposium Co-Hosted by The New England Quarterly on 9/27/24
As battles have raged over the meaning and fate of Confederate monuments across the south, colleges and universities in New England, generally regarded as liberal bastions, have also been engaged in a deep and consequential reckoning with aspects of their history and ongoing practices that rest on the legacies of slave trade and settler colonialism. This event will highlight the work of a diverse range of historians, as well as university archivists and museum professionals, discussing a range of issues from the Colonial period to the present that shape the industry, experience, and cultures of higher education.
Event | Slave Dwelling Project hosts 8th National Conference October 3-5 in Philadelphia, PA October 3-5
The 8th national Slave Dwelling Project Conference will take place October 3-5 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
Farmington Event | The Story of Enslaved Infant Pomp Russell in Franklin County, Maine on 8/26/24
Hosted by the Farmington Historical Society Monday, August 26, 2024 at 7:00 pmNorth Church, 118 High St, Farmington, ME Judy Granger will share the story of two free Black families who settled in Temple and Weld, Maine, and how their presence in community relates to the founding of two of the nation's earliest anti-slavery societies.
Truro Event | What Happened Here? Surfacing Cape Cod’s Connections to Slavery and Colonization with Meadow Dibble on 8/21
This Wednesday, Meadow Dibble will offer an overview of Cape Cod's entanglements in the global economy of enslavement at Truro's Highland House Museum.