{"id":34061,"date":"2013-10-03T03:25:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T03:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34061"},"modified":"2013-10-04T02:42:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T02:42:32","slug":"slavery-freedom-and-reunion-in-a-colonial-connecticut-town-with-grant-hayter-menzies-daryl-dangelo-and-donald-roddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34061","title":{"rendered":"“Slavery, Freedom and Reunion in a Colonial Connecticut Town” with Grant Hayter-Menzies, Daryl D’Angelo and Donald Roddy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Slavery, Freedom and Reunion in a Colonial Connecticut Town” with Grant Hayter-Menzies, Daryl D’Angelo and Donald Roddy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Research at the National Archives and Beyond<\/a>
\nBlogTalk Radio<\/a>
\nThursday, 2013-10-03, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-10-04, 01:00Z)<\/p>\n

Bernice Bennett<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n

In June 1759, Norwich, Connecticut<\/a> businessman Benajah Bushnell sold Guy Drock, a slave of African ancestry, to Sarah Powers, the Caucasian woman Drock had possibly married. Ironically, this deed freed Drock from Bushnell\u2019s control but not from slavery. In March 2012, descendants of Guy and Sarah Drock and of Benajah Bushnell came together in Norwich for the first time in over two centuries. Drock descendants Daryl D\u2019Angelo and Donald Roddy<\/a>\u2014who when they began their research<\/a> years earlier did not know they had African ancestry, and Bushnell descendant Grant Hayter-Menzies<\/a>\u2014who thought only his Southern ancestors were slave owners\u2014met to try to understand a legacy they did not know they shared. In the town where their past began, they sought to explore the personal impact of their ancestors\u2019 intertwined histories, how the past has shaped them, their research and their interactions with one another today, and the relatively unknown institution of slavery in early New England<\/a>.<\/p>\n