Collaborators


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Principal Parties

David Richardson,
University of Hull, Director, Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation

Chandler B. Saint,
President, Beecher House Center for the Study of Equal Rights
coauthor Making Freedom: The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith

James Brewer Stewart,
James Wallace Professor of History, Macalester College, BHC National Board Chair

Descendants of Venture Smith

BBC Look North, Media partner

Nicholas F. Bellantoni,
State Archaeologist, Museum of Natural History and Connecticut Archaeological Center,
University of Connecticut

Cameron Blevins,
Graduate Student Stanford University

Dorothea V. Dicecco,
Emeritus faculty University of Connecticut, Beecher House Center Board

Robert P. Forbes, Assistant Professor of History, University of Connecticut-Torrington

Robert l. Hall,
African American Studies, Northeastern University

James O. Horton,
Benjamin Banneker Professor of History, George Washington University

George a. Krimsky,
Journalist, coauthor Making Freedom: The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith

Marilyn Nelson,
Connecticut State Poet Laureate, author The Freedom Business

Stephen G. Solley,
Descendant of Smith/Denison family, Col. Smith Venture’s last owner allowed him to buy his freedom

Karl P. Stofko,
Historian of East Haddam CT

Linda D. Strausbaugh,
Director, Center for Applied Genetics and Technology, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Peter H. Tillou,
Philanthropist, BHC National Board Chair

Principal Contributors

Vincent Carretta,
Professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park
Connecticut Historical Society
Central Connecticut State University, ALAADS Program

David Brion Davis,
Sterling Professor of History, Emeritus, Yale University

Anna Mae Duane,
Department of English and American Studies, University of Connecticut

David Eltis,
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History Emery University, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database,

SlaveVoyages.org

First Church of Christ Congregational East Haddam

Alan H. Goodman,
Professor of Anthropology, Hampshire College, President AAAP

Haddam Historical Society, Haddam CT

Anne l. Hiskes,
Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut

Paul Lachance,
Visiting Professor, Emory University

Paul E. Lovejoy, Director,
the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto

Paul Murphy,
BBC Correspondent, Producer of the BBC Documentary, A Slave’s Story

Amii Omara-Otunnu,
UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights

Akosua Perbi,
Professor of History, University of Ghana

Gerald F. Sawyer,
Archaeologist

John Wood Sweet,
Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC

Carl Westmoreland,
Senior Researcher, National Underground Railroad and Freedom Center, Cincinnati OH

Consulted

We are grateful to all the scholars and researchers who are continuing to assist us and are committed to the ongoing public telling of this story. That these men and women hail from Barbados, Scotland, Britain, France, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, etc., as well as the United states, reflects the international scope of this project.