Slavery North invites you to the first in our series of eight Fellow Talks in Spring 2026. PhD candidate in History, Tim Hastings, shares his archival research using court records to illuminate the lives of enslaved people in seventeenth and eighteenth-century New Hampshire.
This hybrid talk is open to students, faculty, staff, and members of the public.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 5, 2026, 2:30-3:30 PM (EDT)
Location: Room 601, Herter Hall, 161 Presidents Drive, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003
Online via Zoom:
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/94788067012
Meeting ID: 947 8806 7012
Speaker: Tim Hastings, Graduate Student Fellow, 2025-26
Moderator: Dr. Martha McNamara, Associate Professor of Public History & Associate Director Slavery North
Lecture: Slavery, Community, and the Law in Colonial New Hampshire
Lecture abstract: Using court records, this presentation examines the history of slavery in seventeenth and eighteenth-century New Hampshire. Court records not only illuminate the complex relationship that enslaved people often had with colonial legal systems but also help us understand their social worlds and communities.
Bio: Tim Hastings is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying early American history, public history, and Atlantic World slavery and the African Diaspora. His research focuses on histories of slavery in northern New England, focusing on New Hampshire. He has received research fellowships through Historic Deerfield, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC). Recently, he was a Study Center Research Fellow with Historic New England examining laborers, workers, and domestic servants connected to Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
