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  Words Change the World: Teaching About Racial Injustice Through the Work of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  William Lanson: New Haven Entrepreneur, Abolitionist, and Black Governor
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  William Grimes--Seeking Freedom in Connecticut
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  Venture Smith: From Slavery to Connecticut Businessman
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  Understanding the Census: Tracking Connecticut's Black Population
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  To Join, or Not to Join, George Washington's Army
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  The Role of Enslaved People in Founding Connecticut
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  The Black Law in Connecticut
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  The Amistad Incident and the Face of Slavery
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  Making a Difference: Individuals in Connecticut History
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  Learning by Looking: Reading a Post-Civil War Photograph
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  George Washington's Slave Census
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  From Runaway Slave to American Success: James L. Smith in Norwich
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  Freedom and Liberty in 1776
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  Connecticut's Complicity in Slavery
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  Asian American History in the Civil War Era: Connecticut's Connection to the Trade in Indentured Chinese Workers
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  A Petition for Freedom in 1779
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  Anti-Racist Allies and Accomplices in Connecticut History
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  Amos Beman: Freeman, Freedom Fighter, and Agent of Change
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  Abolition and African Americans in Connecticut
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  Freedom and Liberty in 1776

  Lemuel Haynes was a bi-racial man from West Hartford who was raised as an indentured servant from early childhood until age 21. Haynes served briefly with a militia company in Massachusetts after the battles of Lexington and Concord.