[LincolnTalk] Fwd: Monday's Research Forum with Margaret Newell

[Sara Mattes]

Title: Monday's Research Forum with Margaret Newell

FYI Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Atlantic Black Box <i...@atlanticblackbox.com> Date: January 5, 2025 at 10:39:29 PM EST To: samat...@gmail.com Subject: Monday's Research Forum with Margaret Newell Reply-To: us17-3e1efc6b32-b0b7b74...@inbound.mailchimpapp.net  Here's everything you'll need to join us View this email in your browser Researching & reckoning with New England's role in colonization & slavery Dear ABB Members, On Monday, January 6 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm ET, Dr. Margaret Newell of The Ohio State University's Department of History will return following her talk on the enslavement of Native Americans in New England to share her research methods, sources, and tips with us at our upcoming Research Forum. See you there! Here's the link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88924728107 One tap mobile +13052241968,,88924728107# US +13092053325,,88924728107# US Did you miss Dr. Newell's talk in our Atlantic World Connections online speaker series or would you like to review it? You can access a recording of The Charter Generation by clicking below.  In this talk, Margaret Newell discusses the hidden history of Indigenous enslavement in New England, where Native Americans formed the "charter generation" of the enslaved, outnumbering Africans until after 1700. Professor Newell describes English colonies’ practice of enslavement as well as the impact of slavery on Native communities and families, sharing the stories of a number of enslaved people with Maine connections. Margaret Ellen Newell is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at The Ohio State University. Her most recent book, Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery (Cornell University Press), won the 2016 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best book on the history of race relations in the U.S., and the 2016 Peter Gomes Memorial Prize for nonfiction from the Massachusetts Historical Society. Her recent articles include “’The Rising of the Indians’; Or, the Native American Revolution of (16)’76,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 80 (April 2023); “Sarah Chauqum: Eighteenth Century Rhode Island and Connecticut,” in As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas, ed. Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri Snyder (Cambridge University Press, 2020); “In the Borderlands of Race and Freedom (and Genre): Embedded Indian and African Slave Testimony in Eighteenth-Century New England,” Hearing Enslaved Voices: African and Indian Slave Testimony in French and British America, 1700-1848 ed. Sophie White and Trevor Burnard (Routledge, 2020). Presently, Margaret Newell is Principal Investigator for a multiyear Mellon-funded research project on African American and Native American citizenship, 1780-1950. She has appeared in a documentary on Indian slavery and on the podcasts Ben Franklin's World and Teaching the Hard History of Slavery. She has written Op-Eds on slavery and race for the Providence Journal and Bulletin and The Columbus Dispatch.    Atlantic Black Box is dedicated to expanding the field of historical recovery. We empower communities throughout the Northeast to research and reckon with the region’s active role in colonization and slavery while recentering the stories of its historically marginalized groups.    Atlantic Black Box is a 501c3 public charity EIN 86-2963335 P.O. Box 8771, Portland, ME 04104 www.atlanticblackbox.com i...@atlanticblackbox.com SUPPORT OUR WORK BECOME A MEMBER Copyright © 2025 Atlantic Black Box, All rights reserved. You were subscribed to the newsletter from ATLANTIC BLACK BOX Membership Our mailing address is: Atlantic Black Box P.O. Box 8771 Portland, ME 04104 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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