April 13, 2005

Professor David Blight, Director                                                            
Robert Forbes, Associate Director

Workshop with primary documents & on-line resources

Background Information: 

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition is a division of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Directed by Professor David W. Blight, the Gilder Lehrman Center is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction. It seeks to foster an improved understanding of the role of slavery, slave resistance, and abolition in the founding of the modern world by promoting interaction and exchange between scholars engaged in research in each of these distinct areas, and by assisting in the translation of scholarly information into public knowledge through publications, educational outreach and other programs and events.

Handouts:  Participants received copies of:

“La Amistad:  A Journey Through Connecticut”
Produced in cooperation with the Communities of Farmington, Hartford, Mystic, New Haven and New London, CT

“Remembering the Civil War:  Frederick Douglass and the merits of this fearful conflict” 
A Manuscript from The Gilder Lehrman Collection with an Introduction by David W. Blight.

“After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection” –
Chapter 7:  The View from the Bottom Rail

Special issues of Northeast – The Sunday Magazine of The Hartford Courant

• Complicity – How Connecticut Chained Itself to Slavery - September 29, 2002
• Beyond Complicity – The Forgotten Story of Connecticut’s Slave Ships by Anne Farrow – April 3, 2005

New York Times articles:

• “Word for Word / Slave Journals “I Shall Never Forget the Weeping”(June 20, 2004)
• “Journals of 2 former Slaves Draw Vivid Portraits, and Yale’s Attention” (June 14, 2004)

Activity Sheets for the Primary Document Workshop:  “Sound As a Dollar”: 
‘The Paperwork of Chattel Slavery’” – prepared by Thomas Thurston, Director of Education, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery Resistance & Abolition – Yale Center for International and Area Studies

• Value of Slavery in 1860
• Glossary of Legal Terms
• Copies of documents used in the sale of slaves

Project participants wanting a copy of any the handouts listed above should contact Anne Raymond, araymond@crec.org or (860) 524-4018.