“Gleaming in the Shadow of Slavery: A Conversation with Descendants of African Americans of Old Yale” held on September 16, 2021, presented unique perspectives shared by descendants of early African-American staff and students at Yale, to highlight Black men and women whose lives intersected with Yale and with their living or recent experiences and memories of slavery.
The event was sponsored by the Yale and Slavery Research Project; the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale; and Dixwell Congregational Church, UCC. Introductions: David W. Blight, Chair, Yale & Slavery Working Group, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center, and Sterling Professor of History, Yale University; Moderator: Crystal Feimster, Associate Professor of African American Studies, History, and of American Studies, Yale University and Member, Yale and Slavery Working. Group Panelists: Newman Baker, Jamie Weems, Charles Warner, Jr., Dr. Rebecca Motley, Valerie Rooks, and Jamie Weems.
For more information and a recording of this event visit: https://glc.yale.edu/event/gleaming-shadow-slavery-conversation-descendants-african-americans-old-yale