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To Intermix with Our White Brothers
The Native Americans of mixed ancestry in 1830 and why Andrew Jackson implemented a law to remove them.
Hartford's Ann Plato and the Native Borders of Identity
Who was Ann Plato? Apart from circumstantial evidence, there's little information about the author of Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry, published in 1841. Plato lived in a milieu of colored Hartford, Connecticut, in the early nineteenth century. Although long believed to have been African American herself, she may also, Ron Welburn argues, have been American Indian, like the father in her poem "The Natives of America." Combining literary criticism, ethnohistory, and social history, Welburn uses Plato as an example of how Indians in the Long Island Sound region adapted and prevailed despite the contemporary rhetoric of Indian disappearance. This study seeks to raise Plato's profile as an author as well as to highlight the dynamics of Indian resistance and isolation that have contributed to her enigmatic status as a literary figure.
African American Connecticut Explored
Winner of the Connecticut League of Historic Organization Award of Merit (2015) The numerous essays by many of the state’s leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects beginning from the earliest years of the state’s colonization around 1630 and continuing well into the 20th century. The voice of Connecticut’s African Americans rings clear through topics such as the Black Governors of Connecticut, nationally prominent black abolitionists like the reverends Amos Beman and James Pennington, the African American community’s response to the Amistad trial, the letters of Joseph O. Cross of the 29th Regiment of Colored Volunteers in the Civil Wa...
NGS Newsletter
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The Avery Family
Christopher Avery, son of Christopher Avery and Joan, was born in about 1590 in Ipplepen, Devon, England. He married Margery Abraham Stevens, daughter of Robert Abraham, 28 August 1616 in Abbotskerwell, England. They had two children. Margery died in 1626. He married Alice Berdon, daughter of John Berdon, in 1630. He emigrated with his son, James, in about 1641 and settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts. James married Joanna Greenslade in 1643. They had nine children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut. Includes Bulkeley, Chesebrough, Minor, Potts and related families.
Parker Papers
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NEHGS Nexus
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