Hidden History May 2024 Workshop focusing aimed at historical societies and the stories they tell. The subject matter focuses on Blacks in the American Revolutionary time period, and the paradox of freedom as tied to America250.
John Mills, President and founder of the Alex Breanne Corporation, speaks on the fourth day of the Declaring Freedom series at Central Connecticut State University. The event was sponsored by the Association for the Study of Connecticut History.
Three phenomenal Scholars will share this fascinating history and their remarkable work to reclaim and highlight Black Narratives from Black Descendants. The event will be moderated by Tammy Denease, Outreach Director for the Connecticut Freedom Trail.
This is a lecture, film screenings & discussion regarding Connecticut's 29th & 30th Colored Regiments during the Civil War. It occurred on February 4th, 2024 at the Avon Senior Citizen Center and was hosted by the Avon Historical Society.
Guest speaker John Mills, a Genealogist and President/Founder of the Alex Breanne Corporation, will share his research to include unknown stories of enslaved individuals into the landscape of our communities and his own family’s history of slavery.
Individuals of Connecticut’s Colored Regiments - Nov. 9, 2023 - with John Mills.
On September 13th, 2023, The Mattatuck Museum in collaboration with Riverside Cemetery held a commemoration ceremony for the 10th Anniversary of the burial of “The Man Fortune”. The event was held in the chapel at Riverside Cemetery in Waterburt, CT.
Juneteenth: A Community Celebration of Freedom Day held in Portland, CT on Saturday, June 24th, 2023! The event was held at Portland Senior Center from 11am - 2pm.
I was honored to have been asked to deliver the keynote at the Wooster School for the Witness Stones Project installation for an enslaved man named Ned; enslaved in Connecticut, then beheaded by the British during the Revolutionary War.
John Mills lecture held at Old New Gate Prison in East Granby, CT on September 18th, 2022.
This was a lecture for Northwestern University in Evanston, IL on June 24th, 2022.
John Mills’ lecture brings to light the largely untold story of Prince Mortimer while also evaluating the ripple effects of a past time. Mills traces his personal path in discovering his ties to slavery, what it revealed about himself, and the challenges he would eventually face in attempting to find the burial locations of his ancestors – marrying his own experiences and revelations to that of Connecticut’s Prince Mortimer.
John Mills’ lecture brings to light the largely untold story of Prince Mortimer while also evaluating the ripple effects of a past time. Mills traces his personal path in discovering his ties to slavery, what it revealed about himself, and the challenges he would eventually face in attempting to find the burial locations of his ancestors – marrying his own experiences and revelations to that of Connecticut’s Prince Mortimer.