Learning to See: Connecticut’s Landscape of Captivity

with Anne Farrow, Independent Scholar and Researcher

Individual Lecture ticket $10 (Members 10% discount)

Five Lecture Series ticket $45 (Members 10% discount)

Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams was organized over a three-year period by Jenny Parsons in collaboration with the Museum’s third Artist-in-Residence, William Williams, and historian Carolyn Wakeman.

Slavery in Connecticut was a story written on thousands of human bodies, but also in the ledgers of Connecticut merchants and manufacturers. It was written on ships’ manifests showing horses and food being shipped to the Caribbean, and on the casks of rum and molasses shipped to New England.

Farrow began researching Connecticut’s relationship with slavery for a magazine assignment in the spring of 2002, and became immersed in the state’s deep social and economic history with enslavement. Farrow’s work was published in 2005 as Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery (Ballantine Books) and in 2014 as The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory (Wesleyan).

Image: William Earle Williams, Amistad Pier, New London, Connecticut, 2024. Silver gelatin print, 7 ½ x 7 ½ in. Courtesy of the artist 

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This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of CT Humanities, HSB, Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut, as well as donors to the Exhibition Fund and the Annual Fund. Media sponsor: WSHU Public Radio.

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