Maritime Connections, Maritime Voices: African and Native American Histories of New England
Akeia de Barros Gomes, Ph.D., Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories, Mystic Seaport Museum & Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
7:30PM
The Mellon Foundation-funded collaborative project Reimagining New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom seeks to re-examine the framing of New England as an historical location of “freedom and justice for all.” Native American, African and African American narratives provide us with new lenses through which to understand New England’s maritime story in a holistic way. Indigenous North American and African perspectives on cosmology, time and the sea have largely been silent (or silenced) in the framing of New England’s maritime history even though much of that history is one of Indigenous dispossession and racialized slavery. Working with Native American, African and African American descendant communities and telling history through their voices and the voices of ancestors provides insight into the enduring legacies, strength and resilience of the Sovereign Indigenous Nations and African-descended peoples of New England.
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- Join the audio conference only:
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- Use meeting number (access code) shown above.
- Or join us in-person! The event is hosted in the Avery Point Auditorium (map.pdf).
Enter from the Academic Building main entrance, the auditorium is on the second floor at the end of the hall (mobility-disabled accessible); or enter through the Student Center and go up two flights of stairs.
For more information, contact: Nat Trumbull at trumbull@uconn.edu