Hilltop Happenings

History Faculty Rhonan Mokriski '90 recently helped facilitate a Connecticut Association of Independent Schools webinar for educators on how to rethink lessons on racism and slavery. His program was featured in the New Haven Register, and he plans to use this programming as part of a new course he will teach this semester entitled, “Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut.”

Please read the New Haven Register article here.

Recently, our Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut  students went in search of the Cesar family homestead. The Cesars were a freed Black family who owned land in the Sharon/Salisbury area stretching back to the late 1700s. Timothy Cesar was a Revolutionary War veteran.

High in the hills above the Housatonic River, the class found a stone foundation, an extensive livestock fortification, and the remnants of an old road.

A group of students is studying the Cesar family and will give a presentation to local historical societies.