Speeches/Newspaper Articles/Publications
Collection of Images, Documents, Stories, and Biographies (1450-1865)
American Revolution Primary Source
Lord Dunmore Proclamation Freeing Patriot Slaves Who Fight for the British
Petition of 1779 by Slaves of Fairfield County for the Abolition of Slavery in Connecticut
Ad announcing reward for runaway slave in 1803 Woodstock, CT
From the Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Illustrated
Diaries/Memoirs/Letters
"To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth"
Poem by Phillis Wheatley
Venture Smith Narrative (The Life and Adventures of Venture)
Full Text version
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938
Housed at The Library of Congress
Full Text Version
Artwork
Abolition of Slavery in Jamaica Work of Art
By artist Thomas Picken
Art Representations of Resistance and Slavery
From a project at the University of Miami
Government Documents
Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America (1786)
The Black Law of Connecticut (1833)
Abolition Without Deliverance: The Law of Connecticut Slavery 1784-1848
Slave Population of Colonial Connecticut, 1690-1774
Jackson v. Bulloch and the End of Slavery in Connecticut
Slavery court case
Music
From PBS Channel 13
From the Library of Congress
