Presentation: Who were the enslaved of Bristol and Warren?
On Thursday, Sept. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the George Hail Library, Courtney Garrity, creator of the database with the Bristol Historical and Preservation Society will meet with Pat Mues and Sarah Weed of the Warren Middle Passage Project to discuss their research.
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Presentation: Who were the enslaved of Bristol and Warren?
For centuries, local historians have given little information on the hundreds of Indigenous people and those of African heritage who were enslaved during Bristol and Warren’s early years. But the Bristol County Enslaved History Project is changing that by documenting them in a single database.
On Thursday, Sept. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the George Hail Library, Courtney Garrity, creator of the database with the Bristol Historical and Preservation Society, will meet with Pat Mues and Sarah Weed of the Warren Middle Passage Project to discuss their research. Garrity will demonstrate the features of the database which covers the period from 1680 to 1820. It should prove helpful to researchers and to descendants looking for their ancestors.
The public is invited to the free presentation. Zoom access to the presentation, and further information, is available at BristolCountyEnslavedHistory.com.
This Project has been supported by the Warren Preservation Society, the Bristol Historical and Preservation Society, and a grant from the RI Council for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
