PIER-Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition is dedicated to research and education concerning the chattel slave system and its destruction. It seeks to foster an improved understanding of the role of slavery, slave resistance, and abolition in the founding of the modern world by promoting interaction and exchange among academic scholars, educators, public historians and the general public, and by assisting in the translation of scholarly information into general knowledge through publications, conferences, lectures, and educational outreach.

Through PIER, the Gilder Lehrman Center offers a wide variety of services to K-12 and post secondary educators and students, members of civic groups and the media. Curriculum development, teacher workshops, field study, and regional and national conference workshops are the main components of the Gilder Lehrman Center offerings.

The Gilder Lehrman Center collaborates frequently with other Area Studies outreach programs at PIER to offer summer institutes and after-school workshops for teachers throughout the region.

The Gilder Lehrman Outreach Program is funded through the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City.

For information on the Gilder Lehrman Center Outreach Activities, contact Max Amoh, PIER Director, at (203) 432-3438, or Thomas Thurston, Director of Education at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, at (203) 432-4149.