UPDATE 1/5/2026: Event Postponed!
Due to unforeseen circumstance, this virtual program will be postponed to a later date. Thank you to all our registrants and those interested in attending. Please stay tuned for updates, and we hope to see you in the future!
Virtual Presentation!
Slavery in Connecticut did not end completely until well into the nineteenth century. During the American Revolution, enslaved people themselves dealt the largest blow to bondage and ushered in the first significant free Black population in Connecticut’s history.
Please join us as New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, William Morgan, discusses his research findings from his recent trip to the Connecticut Museum Waterman Research Center. He will explore how our collections demonstrate that Black people, not legislation, crippled slavery at its peak in the 1770s and 80s by making opportunities of the conflict with Britain. Black people made a silent revolution of their own, quietly forging spaces of freedom where none had existed before.
This virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link.
Questions? Contact Jen Busa, Public Programs Coordinator at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org.
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About the Speaker William Morgan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is writing a dissertation about the origins and legacy of emancipation and abolition in Revolutionary New England.
Image: Photo courtesy of William Morgan
