slave trade filmed during Yale event
Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) will broadcast "Slavery & Freedom in New England," which was filmed during a national conference held at Yale, on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 1 p.m.
The conference of the same name took place in July in Luce Hall; it was hosted by The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale. The meeting was designed to introduce U.S. educators and scholars to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The project seeks to establish professional standards and historical context for teaching about the story of the slave trade and its elimination. In the U.S., the UNESCO project is led by a consortium of five leading academic institutions, including Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center.
The 90-minute CPTV program features six historians and educators who explore the transatlantic slave trade and Connecticut's role in it. These include David Brion Davis, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, who discusses how an 18th-century abolitionist in Farmington spoke out against slavery in a society that was generally accepting of the practice.
Other featured speakers are:
David Blight of Amherst College, who examines the difference between a nation's "history" and its "memory" and how they lead to strikingly different interpretations of the past.
Gail Nordmoe of the New London Public Schools, who speaks about the plan to develop a statewide curriculum on Connecticut's historic role in slavery and its eventual abolition.
Gerry Sawyer of Central Connecticut State University, who talks about his archaeological research on a large plantation worked by slaves in 18th-century southeastern Connecticut.
Peter Hinks of Hamilton College, who describes how Hebron residents in 1787 refused to let Southern slave catchers abduct members of a local enslaved family abandoned by their Tory masters.
James Horton of George Washington University, who explains how slavery was an untenable American contradiction, which inexorably led to the Civil War.
The program is underwritten by a grant from Yale University. Additional broadcast dates will be announced at a later date.
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