Prudence Crandall

This Saturday marks the annual Connecticut Open House Day, where lots and lots of local museums, cultural attractions, open spaces and more open their doors for us Nutmeggers to enjoy. Here are some of the many things going on on June 9. For a full list...

Toll-free domestic violence hotlines: Connecticut hotline: 1-888-774-2900 National hotline: 1-800- 7233 (SAFE) National teen dating abuse hotline: 1-866-331-9474 Toll-free for the hearing impaired: National domestic violence hotline: 1-800-787-3224...

++++++++++++++++++++ || What is The Children's Holiday Campaign: The Children's Holiday Campaign is a campaign of Fox 61 Family Fund and The Courant Community Fund, funds of the McCormick Foundation. With your help this holiday season, the Children'...

      With greater stress on our wallets, there are greater stresses on all facets of social services. Even in a strong economy, battered women's shelters face incredible challenges but now the plight of our state shelters is becoming even more trying....

When Northeastern Connecticut's tourism boosters were trying to figure out what to call their region, someone suggested "The Quiet Corner." The name stuck. Off the beaten path, this area often is overlooked by tourists and its attractions are decidedly...

On the night of Sept. 9, 1834, Prudence Crandall, her new husband and some of her black female students were inside her school in the village of Canterbury when they heard loud voices outside and then banging on the doors. They heard glass being smashed...

A listing of recommended books, films, websites and places to visit in Connecticut to learn more about the state's historical involvement with slavery. • • • BOOKS: "Native People of Southern New England, 1500-1650," by Kathleen Joan Bragdon,...

In an essay in The North American Review published in June 1879, Harriet Beecher Stowe addressed the issue of racism in the North. The following excerpt is from that essay, "The Education of Free/d/men." • • • In order justly to estimate the present...

The following excerpts from documents in state libraries, archives and historical societies help illuminate facets of life in Connecticut under slavery, and during its abolition. *** From a letter written by Lizzie Goodwin to her Aunt Emma Whipple,...

Connecticut was a slave state. Does that sound wrong? Does it feel wrong? It shouldn't. Connecticut has a history to confront as much as any Southern state. This reconsideration of Connecticut and its complicity in the institution of slavery is not an...