ARCHIVES AND INQUIRY VIRTUAL SPEAKER SERIES: “Betsey Stockton’s Legacy: A Memorial to the Past, a Challenge for the Future”
APRIL 25, 2023 12pm to 1pm HST

(Honolulu, HI) Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives is pleased to announce the next installment of the Archives and Inquiry Virtual Speaker Series on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 from 12pm to 1pm Hawaiian Standard Time. The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives’ Virtual Speaker Series highlights the discoveries and work of diverse history and humanities scholars that work with Hawaiian Mission Houses' extensive archives, and whose work informs our contemporary world. The Hawaiian Mission Houses' Virtual Speaker Series Archives and Inquiry, is an hour long presentation beginning with the guest speakers and end with Q& A from the audience.

Betsey Stockton – Born into slavery in New Jersey and freed to become a missionary to Hawaiʻi. She arrived with the second company of ABCFM Missionaries in 1823. She founded the first school for commoners on Maui. She later went on another mission to Ontario, Canada. She also founded a school for Free African-Americans in Philadelphia before returning to Princeton, New Jersey for the remaining 30 years of her life. Her legacy is still visible in Princeton at the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church.
Professor Gregory Nobles, Professor Emeritus of History at Georgia Tech, will present on the memorials to Betsey Stockton’s legacy in Princeton, New Jersey and other places on the east coast.
Dr. David Latimore, the Director of the Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, will present on how the center will carry the legacy of Betsey Stockton into the future and plans for outreach programs.

Gregory Nobles (AB, Princeton University; PhD, University of Michigan) is Professor Emeritus of History at Georgia Tech, where he was both faculty member and senior administrator. His scholarly work has focused on the era between the American Revolution and the Civil War, and he is author or co-author of six books, the most recent of which is The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2022). While writing that book, he served as Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American Antiquarian Society, in Worcester MA, and as Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow in Early American History at the Huntington Library, in San Marino CA.

Dr. David Latimore is the Director of the Betsey Stockton Center for Black Church Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. His teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of religion, race, and economic justice through the examination of how economic ideological pre-suppositions underlie many of the disparities and inequalities witnessed in African American communities and their impact on the theology of the Black church. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago, his DMin from McCormick Theological Seminary, his MDiv from Duke Divinity School, and his AB from Harvard University.

The talk will be on Zoom at this link:
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Meeting ID: 834 5996 6594
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