Stolen Relations
Official Bluesky of Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas. Housed Brown Center for Digital Scholarship @browncds.bsky.social; PI Linford Fisher @linford.bsky.social.
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- (1/3) Stolen Relations has officially launched at stolenrelations.org! Thank you to all who attended our launch! This week, we are highlighting the timeline feature of the website. This feature aims to provide a context to colonial and enslavement history, built for those without prior knowledge.
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- (1/3) Sunday marks 218 years since an Indigenous, multi-racial girl whose name was once known emancipated herself from the control of the overseers in Dudley, MA, including John Healy and Lemuel Corbin, the “Guardians of Dudley Indians.” She was pregnant at the time of her self-emancipation.
- Reposted by Stolen RelationsThis important event on Saturday about Indigenous Enslavement will also be livestreamed. events.brown.edu/history/even... #slavery #indigenous
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- (1/3) Five days until the Stolen Relations official launch on May 10! This week, we are highlighting our interactive map. The geolocated points indicate connections to land as well as colonial processes of trafficking and forced relocation.
- (1/3) Two days and 300 years ago, Joseph English, an Indigenous servant in Cambridge, MA, owned the covenant and was baptized at the First Church of Christ. At the time, he was living in the home of William Russell. No information is provided about Joseph aside from his name and his legal master.
- (1/2) The Stolen Relations launch event will be happening on May 10 from 10 AM to 4 PM at Brown University. Please join us in person at the Petteruti Lounge of 75 Waterman Street or virtually to hear from a number of speakers, including tribal representatives, team members, and advisors.
- (1/3) On Tuesday, 250 years will have passed since a Native man’s self-emancipation was described in the Virginia Gazette. Charles, a Native 23 year old, left his enslaver in Bute County, NC, on March 20. He was expected to have gone to Prince George County or any town on the James River or sea.
- (1/3) Three weeks until Stolen Relations launches on May 10! This week, we are touching on the project documentation that will be available on the site. In the hopes of making our decision making processes and values more transparent, we have chosen to go public with many of our considerations.
- (1/4) On this day, 295 years ago, a 14 year old Native servant was listed among those inoculated in Boston. A doctor, likely Zabdiel Boylston, had submitted to the journal the “Names and Ages” of the 77 he had inoculated in March, as a result of a town vote demanding the names of those treated.
- (1/3) Four weeks until Stolen Relations launches on May 10! This week, we are highlighting the educational resources provided on our new website. Many national curricula do not include reference to Indigenous enslavement at all and it is difficult for teachers to create these resources themselves.
- (1/3) Four days and 274 years ago, an ad was sent to the Boston Post Boy, calling for Smithfield residents to find and return Jeremiah Commoson to his legal master, Job Chase. Rather unusually, his full English name was given, but if he had an Indigenous name, it was not recorded.
- (1/3) We are five weeks away from the Stolen Relations official launch on May 10! Stolen Relations was founded as a database project relating to historical documents. Over its ten years of development, it has shifted to a people-centered perspective.
- (1/3) Yesterday, 287 years ago, a 30 year old Indigenous man named Primus’ escape from servitude was publicized in a local paper. He had emancipated himself 16 days before, on March 19. His legal master, Thomas Choat Jr., resident of Ipswich, MA, paid for an ad 2 days after, on March 21.
- Friends, we are disappointed to report that our NEH grant was terminated overnight. The same was true for thousands of other projects. Please join us in protesting these outrageous actions by the Trump administration. aaslh.org/take-action-...
- (1/2) Six weeks until the Stolen Relations official launch on May 10! As part of our effort to return the humanity that history has stolen from unfree Indigenous individuals, Stolen Relations aims to not just present documents, but share full stories as well.
- (1/3) We are seven weeks away from the Stolen Relations official launch! We will be highlighting a feature or aspect of the website each week between now and May 10. This week’s focus is the Indigenous Voices section of the website.
- We have some news! After ten years of working on this project, the new website and database interface will go live on May 10, 2025, during a special launch symposium at Brown University. More details soon! @brownhist.bsky.social @linford.bsky.social @ashleychampagne.bsky.social @browncds.bsky.social
- (1/3) Today marks 251 years since the indenture contract of Solomon Cezar (or Ceasar) was signed by Beriah and Amy Brown, his indenture-holders, and Marcy and Thomas Lawton, his mother and father-in-law. He was to labor for the Browns for five years, until he reached the age of 21.
- (1/3) Tomorrow marks 284 years since Betty Paun, an Indigenous woman of about 25 years of age, chose to emancipate herself by leaving her master, John Bazin of Newport, Rhode Island. Two days after she left, Bazin published an advertisement in the Boston Weekly Post Boy calling for her capture.
