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Uncover their History - Hartford's Ancient Burial Ground Database of enslaved Africans and Native Americans
Uncover their History - Hartford's Ancient Burial Ground Database of enslaved Africans and Native Americans
- 1774 law
- 1784 Slave Laws
- Chart of enslaved in CT
- Runaway Connecticut
- The Benefits of Inheritance - article from the Ancient Burial Ground database
- Hartford Church Records
- Hartford Colonists of Color
- The Historical Status of the Negro in Connecticut, by Willam C. Fowler, 1875, 81 pages.
- Adverts 250 Project : Advertising which includes adds about selling enslaved people and runaways as well as other items which help us to understand the context of the times.
- Legislation in CT Relating to African Americans
- CT slave laws: David Menschel, "Abolition Without Deliverance: The Law of Connecticut Slavery 1784-1848," Yale Law Journal, September 24, 2001, pp 183-222,
- Eliphalet Dyer -
- Noah Webster The Effects of Slavery on Morals and Industry, 1793 Connecticut Courant Advertisement
- Noah Webster, The Effects of Slavery on Morals and Industry, 1793
- Steiner History of Slavery in CT : Full Text of Bernard Steiner, ‘History of Slavery in Connecticut;" 1893.” Internet Archive, The Library Shelf,
- Horatio Strother, Underground Railroad in Connecticut,
- Gilder Lehrman Center: Slavery Documents
- Enslaved Africans in the Colony of Connecticut by Peter Hinks
- The History of Captive People in and around Farmington
- Digital Farmington
- Fairfield Slavery Project
Hartford Courant articles
Hartford Courant articles
- CT Chattel Amnesia :
- Diary of a New England Slave-Owner
- Black Men, Black Masters, by Anne Farrow, 9/29/2002
- "Liberty Further Extended" Lemuel Haynes 1776
- James Mars Words Illuminate the Cruelty of Slavery in New England, Connecticut Explored
“Slavery and Abolition.” ConnecticutHistoryorg.
Slavery and the Constitutional Convention - Roger Sherman https://www.courant.com/news/special-reports/hc-sherman.artsep29-story.html
- Here you can find information on laws, on lawsuits, legal issues in the colony.
- Click on the link above. Choose one of the 15 volumes.
- Choose a search word - ones that work pretty well are "negro," and "slave"
- Be sure to type in the search box within the black box.
- You can also go to the back of each volume and look in the index for the name of a slaveholder, or again the terms "negro," "slave," "mulatto."
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