We Discover Philip Mortimer Enslaved At Least 37 Individuals

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Written By John Mills

Still digging hard to find Prince, but I persist while disturbed by an annoying splinter in my mind. It's rooted in the irony of having identifying documentation of Prince afforded us solely because he was sent to prison. Otherwise, we would know nothing of him.

𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 was simply one of 37 other souls enslaved by Philip Mortimer, the majority of their memories lost without means of recovery, as if they never existed. Current day descendants having no means of identification or alignment, thus nothing to learn from them, nothing to pass down and nowhere to go to honor them...something I can relate to in my own lineage.

I actually feel fortune for what I'm able to find regarding Prince, yet also troubled that I feel fortunate.

We continue to walk.

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

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