Interpreting Absence: Slavery’s Traces in Historic Lyme

with Carolyn Wakeman, Historian and catalogue essayist for Their Kindred Earth

Individual Lecture ticket $10 (Members 10% discount)

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Slavery flourished in the North before the Revolution, and those who lived enslaved can still be glimpsed in deeds, inventories, letters, census counts, military records, and burying grounds.

The discovery in 2010 in the Florence Griswold Museum’s archives of a scrapbook listing enslaved persons prompted an ongoing search that recovered the names and restored some of the circumstances of those held in bondage by ministers, judges, doctors, merchants, farmers, mill owners, and shipbuilders in Lyme over 150 years.

Image: William Earle Williams, Richard Lord’s House at Tantummaheag, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 2023. 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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