{"id":11413,"date":"2024-04-22T21:24:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=11413"},"modified":"2024-04-23T22:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T02:01:50","slug":"history-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2024\/04\/history-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"History resource"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our congregation \u2014 as is true, I suspect, of many older congregations \u2014 is in the process of researching our past relationship with non-White people. Some of the questions we&#8217;re currently wondering about: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Was slave labor used to build our 1747 meetinghouse? (Almost assuredly yes, but we can&#8217;t document it yet.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What was the social status of non-White people? (People of African and Native descent could not sit on the main floor in the 18th C.; we believe this was also true of indentured White servants, but we can&#8217;t yet document that.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did the congregation have non-White members in the 18th or 19th centuries? (A couple in the first half of the 18th century, both Native, then apparently none until the 20th century.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These questions are difficult to research. So I was grateful to learn about the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlanticblackbox.com\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atlantic Black Box website.<\/a> The subtitle of the website sums up their efforts: &#8220;Researching and Reckoning with New England&#8217;s Role in Colonization and Enslavement.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been finding lots of resources for doing local history research on non-White people. Their short essay on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlanticblackbox.com\/2021\/02\/11\/researching-slavery-and-black-life-in-early-new-england-an-introduction\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Researching Slavery and Black Life in Early New England&#8221;<\/a> alone has already proved to be quite helpful to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re part of an older congregation in New England \u2014 definitely worth checking this out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update, 23 April:<\/strong> Of related interest: Congregational Library&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congregationallibrary.org\/black-indigenous-research-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Black and Indigenous Research Guide&#8221; for New England Congregational churches<\/a>, whichincludes a number of digitized 18th C. documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our congregation \u2014 as is true, I suspect, of many older congregations \u2014 is in the process of researching our past relationship with non-White people. Some of the questions we&#8217;re currently wondering about: These questions are difficult to research. So I was grateful to learn about the Atlantic Black Box website. The subtitle of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2024\/04\/history-resource\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;History resource&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-religion-people-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11418,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions\/11418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}