“But She Was a Mother Too”: Remembering Tamar of Old Saybrook

“But She Was a Mother Too”: Remembering Tamar of Old Saybrook

Last November, a group of eighth graders in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, stood around a small stone marker and said a name out loud: Tamar. They wanted her remembered not as a name in a legal record, or solely as an enslaved woman, but as someone’s mother, someone’s daughter, someone’s friend. In the ceremony they designed [...] The post “But She Was a Mother Too”: Remembering Tamar of Old Saybrook appeared first on Historic New England.