John Mills Lecture at Henry James Memorial School in Simsbury

Lecture
Written By John Mills

On February 20th @ 7pm, John Mills will be giving a lecture at Henry James Memorial School in Simsbury, CT.

In the mid 1700’s, a Native American enslaved man in Simsbury, considered unsatisfactory, was said to have been sent to the West Indies in exchange for an African. That African they received in exchange was Peter Jackson. Peter would eventually marry Esther Wallace of Windsor. This union would produce 10 childern. Peter and Esther would have 7 grandson’s who enlisted in colored regiments during the Civil War. In this lecture, we will celebrate the history of this family.

This is a free event. It’s being held at Henry James Memorial School in Simsbury, 155 Firetown Rd. Please join us if you can.

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Thanks 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.

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