Wellfleet Preservation Hall
Telling Truer Stories:
Cape Cod’s Complicity in Slavery and the Journey of Historical Recovery
In past centuries, Cape Cod was deeply invested in slavery. This is not a story we often tell, research, or teach. In fact it flies in the face of many of our most cherished ideas about this place and the people who once inhabited it. In this talk, Atlantic Black Box founder Meadow Dibble will offer insights into the region's entanglements in the global economy of enslavement, exploring what we know, what we have yet to learn, and why it’s so important that we seek to recover from our collective amnesia and move to action.
Meadow Dibble, Ph.D. heads up the Place Justice project for Maine’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations and is Executive Director of Atlantic Black Box, a nonprofit organization she founded in 2018. Currently serving in her third year as a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Meadow received her Ph.D. from Brown’s Department of French and taught Francophone African literature at Colby College from 2005–08. Originally from Cape Cod, she lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula.
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