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Exhibit handout (pdf)

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

This section focuses on the history of slavery and the abolitionist movement in Connecticut from the 1700's into the late 1800's. Primary source materials such as runaway slave advertisements, accounts of slave revolts, and the lives of slaves in Connecticut are included.

Gradual Emancipation

Connecticut slaves were emancipated well before the Emancipation Proclamation delivered by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 through the Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut published in 1784. The bill that specified children born after March 1st, 1784 would be freed at the age of 25. This section includes information about the emancipation of slaves in Connecticut, article citations, and information related to the New Haven region and slavery.

A Western Star over Connecticut

Named after a book in the Buley collection that focuses on Lincoln's connections with Connecticut, this section includes letters sent between Lincoln and political officials in the state, newspaper articles from his visits in Connecticut, and transcripts of his speeches.

Freedom's Journeys

The road to freedom and equality in Connecticut has lasted into the present, and this section looks at a variety of primary source materials, articles and websites that highlight the journey to freedom.

Bibliographies

Materials from Buley Library in the exhibit (pdf)

Slavery in Connecticut - materials at Buley and beyond (links to WorldCat) print pdf

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Abraham Lincoln - materials at Buley and beyond (links to WorldCat) print pdf

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CONSULS library catalog subject searches

Lincoln Abraham, 1809 - 1865

Civil War, 1861- 1856, Connecticut

Slavery - Connecticut - History

Selected websites

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.com/site/tour_index.html

Connecticut Historical Society http://www.chs.org/

Connecticut Lincoln Bicentennial events http://www.yale.edu/glc/lincoln/

Connecticut State Library http://www.cslib.org/

Hartford Courant website about Slavery and Connecticut http://www.courant.com/news/local/northeast/hc-slavery,0,3581810.special

Official Lincoln Bicentennial website http://www.lincolnbicentennial.gov/

Research Guide to Materials Relating to Slavery in Connecticut at the Connecticut State Library http://www.cslib.org/slaveryCt.htm

Highlighted materials
	Jonathan Edwards, D.D. (1745-1801) The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade and of the Slavery of Africans . . . A Sermon. New Haven, Connecticut: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1791 Rare Book & Special Collections Division (96A) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr106.html
	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 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=gcmisc&fileName=ody/ody0125/ody0125page.db&recNum=0&itemLink=/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1b.html@0125&linkText=9
	Affidavit of Singweh, an Amistad African, 1839. Holograph transcript. African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mssmisc&fileName=ody/ody0113/ody0113page.db&recNum=0&itemLink=/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1b.html@0113-0128&linkText=9
	Log Book of Slave Traders between New London and Africa, 1757-8 Connecticut State Library http://www.cslib.org/slaverlog.htm
	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
	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

For more information, contact Alba Reynaga
2/11/2009
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