Hosted by the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, this conversation aims to foreground the silenced stories of Indigenous and African experiences on this continent before European contact.
Event | Working While Black: Race, Labor, and Community in Black Bangor, 1880-1950 with Dr. Maureen Elgersman Lee on 2/22/23
Reaching its peak between the late 1800s and World War II, Bangor’s African American community experienced what is simultaneously a microcosm of America’s history and a very special local history within Maine.
Event | Freedom’s Cause: Historical Black Communities and George Washington’s Cambridge Camp on 2/8/23
Hosted by Wellesley Free Library Wednesday, February 8, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:00pm Register here From 1775-1776, 105 Brattle Street (today Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site) became General George Washington’s first major headquarters of the Revolution. While Washington’s time at Cambridge Headquarters is well-documented, this site also provides a lens into intersections of Black … Continue reading Event | Freedom’s Cause: Historical Black Communities and George Washington’s Cambridge Camp on 2/8/23
Event | Communities of Practice: Interpreting Histories of Enslavement and Freedom on 1/31/23
Hosted by New England Museum Association January 31, 2023Noon - 1:00 pm (Virtual) Communities of Practice: Interpreting Histories of Enslavement and Freedom Historic sites across New England are currently embarking on a process of reinterpreting their museums' role in the institution of slavery (direct or indirect), as well as the discourse around the history of … Continue reading Event | Communities of Practice: Interpreting Histories of Enslavement and Freedom on 1/31/23
Fellowship | Applications for 2023-2024 Lapidus Center Fellowships Due 1/9/23
By Lapidus Center at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture If you are a researcher studying the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World, consider applying to the short and long-term fellowships at the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center. Fellows receive access to … Continue reading Fellowship | Applications for 2023-2024 Lapidus Center Fellowships Due 1/9/23
Resource | Report from the Equal Justice Initiative: American port cities from New England to New Orleans were shaped by the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Equal Justice Initiative's new report examines the economic legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which created generational wealth for Europeans and white Americans and introduced a racial hierarchy that continues to haunt our nation. Introduction, by Bryan Stevenson The enslavement of human beings occupies a painful and tragic space in world history. Denying a … Continue reading Resource | Report from the Equal Justice Initiative: American port cities from New England to New Orleans were shaped by the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Event | Contradictory Place: Cotton Mills Alongside Anti-Slavery Efforts in Lowell MA on 12/7/22
From the 1830s through the Civil War, many Lowellians from all walks of life engaged in concerted efforts to block the expansion of slavery and helped freedom seekers even when this meant defying federal law. “A Contradictory Place” offers viewers a way to learn about an important, but too often neglected, chapter of our history.
Event | Overlooked Stories and Histories: African Americans in Maine on 11/10/22
This Great Falls Forum panel will share stories to advance our knowledge of African Americans in Maine. Along with building a more honest and inclusive narrative of the community’s racial-ethnic heritage, panelists offer creative ways to preserve and celebrate told and untold stories of work, community-building, and the region's multifaceted heritage.
Event | New Insights into Indigenous and Enslaved People in Colonial Portland on 11/16/22
Hosted by the Tate House Museum Zoom Lecture presented by:Holly K. Hurd, Executive Director Laura F. Sprague, Consulting CuratorWednesday, November 16 at 5:30 p.m. Register here The lecture will highlight new research about colonial Portland & perspectives on Indigenous and Enslaved people that will expand the interpretation of historic Tate House. The lecture will be moderated by … Continue reading Event | New Insights into Indigenous and Enslaved People in Colonial Portland on 11/16/22
Tomorrow! Walking Tour of Slavery & Freedom with Hidden Brookline
November 5th, 1:00pm - 2:30pm Hosted by Hidden Brookline Sign up here This lively 90-minute tour visits three sites to tell the history and stories of slavery and freedom. We begin at Town Hall where participants look for evidence of slavery that is hidden, but in plain sight. The walk continues to an Underground Railroad … Continue reading Tomorrow! Walking Tour of Slavery & Freedom with Hidden Brookline
Question: How likely is it that enslaved people in 18th-century MA were buried with their enslavers?
This question is from Barbara Brown of Hidden Brookline. The Friends of Brookline's Old Burying Ground are planning to place markers in the cemetery to mark and honor the enslaved buried there. At this point, we have confirmed 10 enslaved people as buried in the cemetery, with 8 out of the 10 listed as buried … Continue reading Question: How likely is it that enslaved people in 18th-century MA were buried with their enslavers?
Mainers in the Sugar Trade
Cipperly Good describes an 1837 trading voyage that took a 24-year-old Maine captain from West Prospect, Maine to Barbados, Trinidad, and St. Thomas, with stops at Puerto Rico and New York City.
News | ‘Here Lies Darby Vassall’ installation honors the life of anti-slavery advocate and activist
Story by Tiziana Dearing and Andrea Perdomo-HernandezWBUR Radio BostonOctober 12, 2022 Christ Church Cambridge hosted a special event Wednesday to honor a man who shares a crypt with two people who enslaved him and his parents. "Here Lies Darby Vassall" is a multimedia installation by Harvard University Graduate School of Design student Nicole Piepenbrink, commemorating Darby … Continue reading News | ‘Here Lies Darby Vassall’ installation honors the life of anti-slavery advocate and activist
Event tonight | Yarmouth History Center (ME): Maine and the West Indies
Hosted by Yarmouth History Center October 11 at 7:00 pm Learn more here
Event tonight | The Hard History Project: Practical Examples for Teaching Slavery Across Grade Bands 10/11/22
Hosted by The Hard History Project October 11th, at 7:00pm EST Register here Presented by the Hard History Project and our friends at Freedom on the Move, this free webinar will feature best practices for teaching slavery in the United States to elementary, middle school and high school students. During the webinar, participants will gain practical, use-tomorrow … Continue reading Event tonight | The Hard History Project: Practical Examples for Teaching Slavery Across Grade Bands 10/11/22
Event | Book Launch for Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life by Lydia Moland 10/27
Hosted by Longfellow Books Co-sponsored by Maine Historical Society and Mechanics' Hall Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 7:00pmAn in-person event at Mechanics' Hall519 Congress St 2nd FloorPortland, ME 04101 Register here Join Longfellow Books to celebrate the launch of LYDIA MARIA CHILD: A RADICAL AMERICAN LIFE by Lydia Moland. A compelling biography of Lydia Maria … Continue reading Event | Book Launch for Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life by Lydia Moland 10/27
News | The slave trade thrived in the Meadowlands. A N.J. woman wanted the story told.
By Keith Sargeant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com The shackled men and women were sold door to door. Privateers sailed up the Hackensack River, offering slaves to plantation owners from modern-day Newark to Rutherford. The Africans were lucrative human cargo, seized when the pirates commandeered slave ships in Perth Amboy before fleeing north to … Continue reading News | The slave trade thrived in the Meadowlands. A N.J. woman wanted the story told.
News | Boston archeologists digging for artifacts tied to slavery, Underground Railroad
Boston’s archeology team is digging at several sites through the city to uncover untold stories of the city’s connection to slavery, the Underground Railroad and Black history. The first of three excavations got underway in mid-September at the Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury. The mansion, built in 1747, was once the seasonal country estate of William … Continue reading News | Boston archeologists digging for artifacts tied to slavery, Underground Railroad
Watch | Old North and Enslaved People in the British Colonial Period
From the series "Illuminating the Unseen" by Old North Church, Boston In this episode of Illuminating the Unseen, Jaimie discusses slavery in Boston during the British colonial period. How did it differ from Southern slavery? How many enslaved people lived in Massachusetts? How did Old North congregants participate in and profit from slavery? Jaimie looks … Continue reading Watch | Old North and Enslaved People in the British Colonial Period
Conference | Teaching Race & Slavery in the American Classroom 11/3 – 5
Hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale Thursday, November 3, 2022 • 6:30pm through Saturday, November 5, 2022 • 3:30pm Register Here • Full Conference Schedule The 24th Annual Conference hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at … Continue reading Conference | Teaching Race & Slavery in the American Classroom 11/3 – 5