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The Connecticut Role in Slavery Was Worse Than You Think

WSP · Feb 26, 2019 ·

By Meghan Friedmann in New Haven Register on February 26, 2019.

GUILFORD — For many, Harriet Beecher Stowe — the Connecticut-bred woman behind the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin —represents one of the country’s most famous abolitionists.

But Dennis Culliton, the Guilford history teacher behind the Witness Stones project, wants to illuminate another, largely untold piece of Stowe’s history: though Stowe and her like-minded relatives seem seemed to form the “epitome of an enlightened New England family,” they also benefited from slavery, a reality common throughout the region. Continue reading.

 

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