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  Venture Smith: From Slavery to Connecticut Businessman
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  The Amistad Incident and the Face of Slavery
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  George Washington's Slave Census
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  The Black Panthers and the May Day Rally in New Haven
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  Accused: 17th-Century Witch Trials
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  Abolition and African Americans in Connecticut
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  Telling Their Stories: African Americans in the American Revolution

  During the American Revolution, free and enslaved Black people fought for American independence. Although some fought as substitutions for their enslavers or enslaver’s family members, others fought as a way to gain their freedom, or the freedom of their family, through an act of agency.