Educating for Justice: Understanding New York's History of Enslavement
Channel: MacaulayHonorsCUNY
Date: 2022-06-23

https://macaulay.cuny.edu

In celebration of Juneteenth, @Macaulay Community would like you to join us as we take a look at New York's history of enslavement with the help of John Jay College of Criminal Justice professors F. Warren "Ned" Benton, PhD and Judy-Lynne Peters, PhD who developed and administered the first New York Slavery Records Index in 2018. The index has grown and is now called the Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI), an online searchable compilation of records that identify enslaved person and enslavers in the states of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey.

The goal of NESRI is to deepen the understanding of slavery in the northeast United States by bringing together information that until now has been largely disconnected and difficult to access.

Moderating the conversation will be Interim Dean, Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés.