Our Offerings
Story Circles Confronting the Historical Grief
of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade
Story Circles Confronting the Historical Grief of the Transatlantic Slave Trade is a project of the Center for theater and pedagogy of the oppressed, funded by RI Humanities and offered in thought partnership with the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG).
Using the story circle process of John O’Neil of the historic SNCC, Free Southern Theater, CTPO seeks to engage artists, humanists, activists and everyday citizens, with the history of enslaved Africans in New England, with a particular focus on Bristol, RI and the DeWolf family’s legacy as one of the largest slave trading families in the United States. The preservation of primary source materials through the Linden Place Mansion and the Bristol Historical Society allows us to reassess and reimagine the stock story narrative about the North/ South binary that we are told about slavery and black resistance in the United States.
Of particular interest, due to the intersectional nature of oppression that they endured, Black female abolitionists who self liberated from slavery, in order to confront the transatlantic slave trade, are a primary focus of the stories that we will offer to prompt our conversations.
In celebration of Black history Commemorations Summer 2025, we gathered to honor Juneteenth, Independence Day and Black August on Zoom.
Schedule
June Story Circle: Juneteenth Celebration: From Grief to Resilience
July Story Circle: Independence Day: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
August Story Circle: Black August: What Happened to New Goree?
What is a Story Circle?
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