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"The historian's’ search for historical meaning comes through asking questions, finding evidence, critically reading and evaluating the evidence, contextualizing the evidence within a story, and making meaning of the story in the broader history of our state and country. Historians want to read multiple sources, including those that contradict, to get the most accurate picture of what happened. And then, we contemplate. We evaluate the information. We put it in context to give it meaning within our national story...
Historians use historical thinking skills to practice our craft. We study change and continuity. We put events in a context. And we look at an event from different perspectives. We do this by finding, reading and analyzing a wide variety of historical evidence. Historians categorize, generalize and evaluate."
From: How Do Historians Think About United States History? Tracey M Wilson, September 2015
https://www.pgabrielleforeman.com/writing-about-slavery-guide
The Language of Slavery - The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program is currently revising this webpage in order to reflect accurate and contextual ways to talk about slavery, freedom, and the Underground Railroad.
The Language of Slavery - The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program is currently revising this webpage in order to reflect accurate and contextual ways to talk about slavery, freedom, and the Underground Railroad.
Steiner : Bernard Steiner, History of Slavery in CT" 1893.” Internet Archive, The Library Shelf,
Horatio Strother, Underground Railroad in Connecticut, 1962.
Atlantic Black Box researching & reckoning with New England's role in the global economy of enslavement
Atlantic Black Box is a public history project that empowers communities throughout New England to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with our region’s complicity in the slave trade and our extensive involvement in the global economy of enslavement. This grassroots historical recovery movement is powered by citizen historians and guided by a broad coalition of scholars, community leaders, educators, archivists, museum professionals, antiracism activists, and artists.
https://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/product/african-american-connecticut-explored/
Freedom Monument Sculpture Park honors lives of enslaved people.
Freedom Monument Sculpture Park honors lives of enslaved people.
Equal Justice Initiative founder and CEO speaks with NBC News’ Lester Holt about the new sculpture park created on the shores where the slave trade once flourished in Montgomery, Alabama. A new monument honors the lives of 10 million Black people who were enslaved in America. The park joins the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
Black Lives: "The text is organized around one central theme: connections. New England slavery was actually part of a wider world of slavery and colonization in the Americas, and was important for the emergence of Amerian industrial capitalism." p. xv.
Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, poet and Atlantic staff writer Clint Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves.
In this excerpt from a talk he gave at Little, Brown and Company, Clint Smith discusses Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving over 400 people on the premises.
Explore a series of short videos from CPTV :
Unforgotten: Connecticut's Hidden History of Slavery
Explore the hidden history of slavery in early Connecticut in a special series of stories
https://video.cptv.org/show/unforgotten-connecticuts-hidden-history-of-slavery/
Feb 20, 2023 Toward Inclusive Excellence Podcast with Pulitzer Prize Winner David Hackett Fischer on African Influences on American Society
Click to listen to 3 podcasts from Grating the Nutmeg.
Click to listen to 3 podcasts from Grating the Nutmeg.
Connecticut is a small state with big stories. GTN episodes include top-flight historians, compelling first-person stories and new voices in Connecticut history. Executive Producers Mary Donohue and Natalie Belanger look at the people and places that have made a difference in CT history. New episodes every two weeks. A production of Connecticut Explored magazine.
I'm honored to have been asked to contribute to the creation of, “Unforgotten: Connecticut's Hidden History of Slavery” — a special series from Connecticut Public, featuring radio storytelling, in-depth videos, digital stories, pictures, a podcast and a television special.
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