A New Mural Honoring Primus — Join Us in Norwich!

Memorial
Written By John Mills

My non-profit, the Alex Breanne Corporation, has collaborated with UCFS Healthcare, the Norwich NAACP, the Norwich Historical Society and Public Art for Racial Justice Education (PARJE) to unveil a new mural celebrating a formerly enslaved man named Primus.

Primus’s story spans generations. His son served in the Revolutionary War, and two of his second great-grandsons served in the Civil War—one of whom is memorialized on the 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment Monument in New Haven.

This will be a storytelling mural, tracing Primus’s path to America and celebrating his life, as well as the military service of his descendants.

🎨 Community Paint Day

Saturday, April 18 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Join us as we bring this mural to life. We are honored that Connecticut Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas will offer opening remarks.

👉 Register HERE!

🖼️ Official Mural Unveiling

Saturday, May 9 | 11:00 AM

Celebrate the completion of the mural with us. The Mayor of Norwich and a representative from the Connecticut Freedom Trail will be joining us! NBC Connecticut will be covering the event!

👉 Register HERE!

This mural represents a $28,000 effort, made possible in part by many of you. Thank you for helping bring this story to life.

If you would like to help me continue in this type of work, please consider donating to my non-profit at https://alexbreanne.org/donate.

Thank you and God Bless.

John

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.

https://alexbreanne.org
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