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Author:

Vara-Dannen, Theresa, 1955- author.

Title:

The African-American experience in nineteenth-century Connecticut : benevolence and bitterness / Theresa Vara-Dannen.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxix, 203 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

African Americans--Connecticut--History--19th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0739188623 (cloth)
9780739188620 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)862589316

LCCN:

2013049920

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)