Prospect Park Alliance presents a Community Conversation as part of ReImagine Lefferts, an initiative to re-envision the mission and programming of this historic house museum to recognize the role the house played as a site of dispossession and enslavement, and explore the stories of the Indigenous people of Lenapehoking whose unceded ancestral lands the house rests upon and the Africans who were enslaved by the Lefferts family. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded a prestigious $275,000 Humanities in Place grant to the Alliance, which is making this work possible.
In this Community Conversation, new research will be shared with attendees about the Indigenous history and legacy of African enslavement at the site and surrounding areas for feedback and guidance about how best to commemorate and communicate this important history. The event includes presentations, creative workshops, and discussions about how the museum can honor centuries of resilience and resistance of Indigenous and enslaved peoples in what became Brooklyn.
This event is free and open to the public at the Boat House in Prospect Park. Reservations are required.
