Join us this February for the second installment of our Reflections on the Revolution Lecture Series.
In this meaningful virtual presentation, the Greenwich Historical Society welcomes Dr. Akeia de Barros Gomes to share an in-depth exploration of the voices and histories of African and Dawnland communities during the contentious events leading to the American Revolution.
When historians incorporate African, African-descended, and Dawnland (New England) Indigenous peoples into colonial histories, histories of the Revolution, and histories beyond, it is often through the process of wedging Black and Indigenous historical narratives into existing Western concepts of history, time, and the cosmos. Rarely are these histories told through the voices and worldviews of African-descended and Dawnland Indigenous peoples. And even more rarely do we engage in these in a way that validates African and Dawnland knowledges and their recovered and reclaimed histories. Museum professionals can and should work with Black and Indigenous communities to reimagine and validate these knowledges and histories and provide community historians with an authoritative voice in telling their histories.
Ticket purchase includes access to the virtual presentation and admission to the current exhibition Greenwich During the Revolutionary War: A Frontier Town on the Front Line, on view at Greenwich Historical Society through June 2025. This engaging exhibition examines the impact of the Revolutionary War on Greenwich, including an exploration of the town’s diverse communities and the daily lives of the people in Greenwich who were immediately effected by the conflict. For more information, visit https://greenwichhistory.org/rev-war/.
