This exhibit celebrates the Lincoln Bicentennial, focusing on slavery in Connecticut and Lincoln's influence and interactions in Connecticut. Print and digitized materials, websites and references are provided in four major areas of the exhibit:
Slavery and Abolition in Connecticut
Gradual Emancipation
A Western Star over Connecticut
Freedom's Journeys
Abraham lincoln and CT website http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=53&CRLI=133
Citizens All: African Americans in Connecticut 1700 - 1850 http://cmi2.yale.edu/citizens_all/index.html
Connecticut Freedom Trail website http://www.ctfreedomtrail.org/
Connecticut Historical Society http://www.chs.org/
Gilder Lehrman Center events http://glc.yale.edu/gilder-lehrman-center-events-0
Connecticut State Library http://ctstatelibrary.org/
Hartford Courant resources about Slavery and Connecticut http://www.courant.com/news/special-reports/hc-slave-resources-story.html
Official Lincoln Bicentennial website http://www.lincolnbicentennial.org/
Research Guide to Materials Relating to Slavery from Museum of Connecticut History http://museumofcthistory.org/research-guide-to-materials-relating-to-slavery-in-connecticut/
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Jonathan Edwards, D.D. (1745-1801) |
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A History of the Amistad Captives: Being a Circumstantial Account of the Capture of the Spanish Schooner Amistad . . . . African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress |
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Affidavit of Singweh, an Amistad African, 1839. African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress |
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Log Book of Slave Traders between New London and Africa, 1757-8 Museum of Connecticut History |
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Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood, & Co., 1867), W. E. B. Du Bois Library * University of Massachusetts Amherst Antislavery in New England digital collection http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/digital/antislavery/197.pdf |
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Revolutionary War documents for Juba Freeman. African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2b.html#0205 |