Loomis Chaffee Ethical History Project

In 2021, this project set out to research the lives of Black people enslaved by the Chaffee, Loomis, and Hayden families as well as the historical contexts in which they lived. For its first four years, our committed and collaborative student-faculty research project sought to center the lives of people whose lives were forever altered by the experiences of enslavement. The project expanded in 2025 with the addition of Indigenous Perspectives, research that aspires to tell the history of the Loomis Chaffee campus through Indigenous histories and perspectives. With a new name, Loomis Chaffee Ethical History Project, we look forward to both deepening and broadening the focus of our ongoing work.