Beth is collaborating (2025-2027) with Stenton museum in Philadelphia to evaluate their effort to create a new interpretive plan that contextualizes the history of slavery at the historic house through exhibitions, tours, and programs.

Illuminating the largely invisible labor force of enslaved and indentured people who lived and worked on the property in the 18th and 19th centuries, the project challenges prevailing views that Quakers were strictly abolitionists and that slavery was only a Southern phenomenon.

The updated interpretive plan will support Stenton in illuminating the community that lived and labored on the property in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose stories have been largely neglected during the site’s 120 plus year history as a house museum.

More info here: Wrestling with Justice.