Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice

The sources below present a sampling of recent scholarship and public humanities projects about racial slavery, settler colonialism, resistance, and freedom in New England and North America more broadly, including maritime contexts, as well as public-facing work by Native American and African-American communities related to these histories and legacies. They were compiled as part of the Reimagining New England Histories (RNEH) project.

Sample biographies of Native Americans and African Americans