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    Nov 4, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  1. CT Closeup: Haddam

    <strong>HOW IT GOT ITS NAME:</strong> Originally part of Haddam, and named for Little Haddam in Hertfordshire, England, the eastern side of town was settled around 1685 and incorporated as a separate town in 1734.
    HOW IT GOT ITS NAME: Originally part of Haddam, and named for Little Haddam in Hertfordshire, England, the eastern side of town was settled around 1685 and incorporated as a separate town in 1734. LANDMARKS: East Haddam is home to two of Connecticut's...

    Tags: East Haddam, Goodspeed Opera House, Opera (genre), Haddam, Nathan Hale

    2. Sep 29, 2002 |Story| Hartford Courant

  2. Chapter One: The Plantation Next Door

    The most disturbing evidence of Connecticut's long and profitable complicity in slavery lies hidden in plain sight in the town of Salem, in the fields and woods around an ice cream bar near Routes 11 and 82. There, archaeologists from Central Connecticut...

    Tags: Distilling and Brewing Industry, Lebanon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, City University of New York, Economy, Business and Finance

    3. Sep 29, 2002 |Story| Hartford Courant

  3. Black Men, Black Masters

    The first U.S. Census for Connecticut lists six black men as owners of slaves, notably a New London County man named Prince, who is shown as owning four people. In his doctoral dissertation on the lives of black people in Colonial-era Connecticut, Guocun...

    Tags: New London County, East Haddam, Foreign Aid, Connecticut, Wethersfield

    4. Sep 27, 2002 |Story| Hartford Courant

  4. Resources To Find More on Slavery In Connecticut

    The Hartford Courant
    A listing of recommended books, films, websites and places to visit in Connecticut to learn more about the state's historical involvement with slavery. • • • BOOKS: "Native People of Southern New England, 1500-1650," by Kathleen Joan Bragdon,...

    Tags: Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Massachusetts, Mystic, Prudence Crandall

    5. Sep 25, 2002 |Story| Hartford Courant

  5. Excerpt: Venture Smith

    At the close of that year I was sold to a Thomas Stanton, and had to be separated from my wife and one daughter, who was about one month old. He resided at Stonington Point. To this place I brought with me from my late master's ... three old Spanish dollars, and two thousand of coppers, besides five pounds of my wife's money. This money I got by cleaning gentlemen's shoes and drawing-boots, by catching muskrats and minks, raising potatoes and carrots, etc., and by fishing in the night.
    At the close of that year I was sold to a Thomas Stanton, and had to be separated from my wife and one daughter, who was about one month old. He resided at Stonington Point. To this place I brought with me from my late master's ... three old Spanish...

    Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, New London (New London, Connecticut), Long Island, Fishing, Adultery

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