Title: The African-American experience in nineteenth-century Connecticut : benevolence and bitterness /
Authors: Vara-Dannen, Theresa, 1955-
Year: 2014
Subjects: African Americans Connecticut History; African Americans Social conditions; African Americans Connecticut Social conditions; Connecticut Race relations.
Contents: The limits of white memory: slavery, violence and the Amistad incident in the press and in history -- Letters of protest: responding to racial prejudice against Frederick Douglass and others in Connecticut -- Uplift through education: the dream of a Negro college in New Haven and Prudence Crandall's School for Little Colored Misses -- Marrying up? Interracial marriages in 19th century Connecticut.