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Slavery in Connecticut 1640-1848

by
David L. Parsons

Contents of Curriculum Unit 80.06.09:

• Narrative
• Slavery in Colonial Connecticut
• The Black Code
• Social Conditions
• Slavery in Revolutionary Connecticut
• Black Soldiers
• The End of Slavery: 1797-1848
• Sample Lesson Plan I
• Sample Lesson Plan 2
• Sample Lesson Plan 3
• Teachers� Bibliography
• Students� Bibliography
• Classroom Materials

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Teaching both Connecticut and Afro-American history to sixth-graders  I began to question the wisdom of teaching the two subjects separately. Students questions in class often revealed their attempts to relate the two main parts of their social studies work. The student who asked if Jonathan Trumbull was Black and the student who wanted to know where Connecticut's plantations had been were both searching for a way to understand one subject in the context of the other. It was impossible for them to do it with any accuracy because they had learned so little about Blacks in Connecticut.

The source of this story and to read more about the state of Connecticut and Afro-American history in ct 

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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1980/6/80.06.09.x.html