Professor Warren Perry Featured in Hartford Courant Northeast Magazine

Connecticut’s historic complicity in slavery as researched by Dr. Warren Perry, associate professor of anthropology, and Jerry Sawyer, adjunct in the Anthropology Department, was featured in special edition
of The Hartford Courant’s “Northeast” Magazine, “Complicity” (Sept. 29), which focused on Connecticut’s involvement in slavery.

The article focused on their work in the town of Salem, where, for the last three summers, they have been painstakingly uncovering the remnants of a plantation worked by as many as 60 slaves in the years before
the American Revolution. Their research is extraordinary due to the fact that slavery in Connecticut, if recognized at all, was thought to be limited. The Salem Plantation is stunning in scale, so much so that it gives Connecticut the dubious distinction of having hosted three of the largest slave enterprises in 18th-Century New England.

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