“Jethro a blackman, Farmer.” Detail, Plan of the Town of New Haven With All of the Buildings in 1748. New Haven, 1806. The New Haven Museum, 2008 112. The map shows the location of the freedman Jethro Luke’s property on what is now the Jean Pope Memorial Park, facing the Yale Law School. While enslaved, Luke had been employed in the construction of Yale College’s Connecticut Hall. Originally produced in manuscript in 1748, the image was engraved in 1806 by Thomas Kensett, husband to Elizabeth Daggett. It offers one example of the complex histories of race and slavery within the the university and New Haven communities. For further information on Jethro Luke, see Michael Morand, “Reckoning with History: the 1748 Map of New Haven,” February 15, 2021; youtube.com/ watch?v=RTN119LY1ZY.
Exhibit Events
Exhibit Tours & Talks
An exhibit tour with Fred Shapiro
Thursday, October 20, 12-1pm
Alumni Weekend – Exhibit Tour
Friday, October 21
Mondays at Beinecke – Discussion with Fred Shapiro and Kathryn James
Monday, October 24, 4-5pm
A walking tour of the Grove Street Cemetery, and the Founders’ graves, with Michael Morand (Beinecke Library)
Thursday, October 27, 4-5:15pm
An exhibit tour with Kathryn James
Thursday, November 3, 12-1 pm
Exhibit discussion panel with Femi Cadmus, Susan Gibbons, and Michael Morand
Tuesday, February 7, 12-1pm
Workshop
Legal Information & Book History
Kathryn James and Nicholas Mignanelli
Thursdays, 12:10-1:30
September 29
October 13
November 10
December 8 [Postponed – new date tbc]
Book Display
On view in the Lillian Goldman Law Library Reading Room (Level 3): a display of publications by Yale Law School faculty members on issues of race and slavery, curated by Nicholas Mignanelli (Research Librarian & Director of Programming) and Fred Shapiro (Associate Director of Library Collections and Special Projects).