Speaking for Herself: Black Women’s Voices in Colonial New Haven Lunchtime Webinar at New Haven Museum

Writer and historian Hope McGrath will share extraordinary first-person accounts of two local women in the 1700s in a lunchtime webinar for the New Haven Museum (NHM), “Speaking for Herself: Black Women’s Voices in Colonial New Haven,” on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at 12:30 p.m. The free NH250 event will delve into what we know—and what can we learn—about the experiences, viewpoints, and feelings of enslaved and free Black women in New Haven in the 18th century.