Slavery and the Economic Landscape of Colonial and 19th Century Connecticut : Yale and Slavery

Slavery and the Economic Landscape of Colonial and 19th Century Connecticut
Yale University emerged in the midst of the colonial eighteenth century British Empire, based in a British colony that was founded through the conquest of Native American lands. The colonies of New Haven, Connecticut, and New England at large were immersed in the realities of slavery, both through settler colonial conflict with Indian cultures and livelihoods and through robust trade with the slave-based economies of the West Indies. This session will explore the economics and legacies of these encounters.
Moderator: Edward Rugemer* (Associate Professor of African American Studies & History, Yale University)
Christine M. DeLucia (Associate Professor of History, Williams College): “Indigenous Lives, Lands, and Colonial Dispossessions”
Anne Farrow (Journalist, editor, researcher, and public history consultant, author of The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory and co-author of Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery): “Follow the Money”
Marcus Rediker (Distinguished Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh), presenting a summary of the work of the late Eric B. Kimball (formerly Assoc. Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg): “Connecticut Merchants and West Indian Slavery”