History Day - Era of Reform (1815-1859)

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North American Slave Narratives
Collection of online resources.
Part of Documenting the American South at UNC.

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Site: ""North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves and some significant fictionalized slave narratives published in English before 1920."

History of Slavery in Connecticut by Steiner, Bernard C.
Call Number: Online and CSL Stacks E445.C7 S8 1893 Item does not circulate.

Publication Date: 1893

Online at Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/histslaveryconn00steirich

Jackson v. Bulloch

Jackson v. Bulloch and the End of Slavery in Connecticut
From ConnecticutHistory.org
There are links to additional resources at other institutions (such as Yale)
Abolition Without Deliverance: The Law of Connecticut Slavery 1784-1848
Menschel, David. "Abolition Without Deliverance: The Law of Connecticut Slavery 1784-1848." The Yale Law Journal 111, no. 1 (10, 2001): 183-222

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The Connecticut State Library does not have this issue in print or microfiche.
The Yale Law Journal is available on journal's website and in some of our subscription databases for library card holders.

Mars, James

James Mars, b. 1790

James Mars, b. 1790
Summary of "Life of James Mars, A Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. Written by Himself"
James Mars’ Words Illuminate the Cruelty of Slavery in New England

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