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Black Loyalist Refugees: Toney Escapes During the Burning of Fairfield

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Lemuel Haynes: America’s First Black Ordained Minister

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The 29th Leaves for War – Today in History: March 19

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Connecticut’s Black Governors

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Jackson v. Bulloch and the End of Slavery in Connecticut

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Remembering Fredi Washington: Actress, Activist, and Journalist

Malcolm X in Hartford: “Our Mission is Not Violence but Freedom”

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Hartford’s Great Migration through Charles S. Johnson’s Eyes

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Site Lines: Fortresses of Faith, Agents of Change

The Fugitive and the Hero

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The Fight Over Slavery Reaches Torrington

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The Language of the Unheard: Racial Unrest in 20th-Century Hartford

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Augustus Washington (1820 – 1875): African American Daguerreotypist

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Laboring in the Shade

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The Successes and Struggles of New Haven Entrepreneur William Lanson

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Reverend James Pennington: A Voice for Freedom

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Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses

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“An Admirable Portrait” of Frederick Douglass

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A Connecticut Slave in George Washington’s Army

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Anna Louise James Makes History with Medicine

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James Williams, More than Trinity College’s Janitor

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Connecticut and the West Indies: Sugar Spurs Trans-Atlantic Trade

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Ellis Ruley: Art that Celebrated Life

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Hartford’s Louis Peterson, Groundbreaking African American Playwright

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Hartford’s Les Payne, Trailblazing Journalist

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Liberian Independence Day

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Early Civil Rights and Cultural Pioneers: The Easton Family

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Academy Graduates First African American Student – Today in History: June 8

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Andover Lake: A Lesson in Social Change

Changing Sentiments on Slavery in Colonial Hebron

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How Real Estate Practices Influenced the Hartford Region’s Demographic Makeup

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1850s Equal Rights Activist James Mars

Hartford Times – Voices of Change

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Nancy Toney’s Lifetime in Slavery

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Gradual Emancipation Reflected the Struggle of Some to Envision Black Freedom

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Hartford Publishes the First Literary Work by an African American – Who Knew?

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A Woman Who Developed Tolerance: Leila T. Alexander

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Video – Mary Townsend Seymour Tribute Film

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29th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers Fought More than One War

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Selma, Not So Far Away

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Connecticut 29th Mustered into Service – Today in History: March 8

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Early Anti-slavery Advocates in 18th-century Connecticut

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Capital Community College Students Explore Hartford’s Immigrant History…In Their Own Words

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