New England’s hidden history
More than we like to think, the North was built on slavery.
If Concord was a slave town, historians say, Connecticut was a slave state. It didn’t abolish slavery until 1848, a little more than a decade before the Civil War. (A judge’s ruling ended legal slavery in Massachusetts in 1783, though the date is still hotly debated by historians.) It’s a history Connecticut author and former Hartford Courant journalist Anne Farrow knew nothing about — until she got drawn into an assignment to find the untold story of one local slave.
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/09/26/new_englands_hidden_history/?page=full
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