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Fortune's Bones

A series of poems on the life of Fortune, an eighteenth-century African-American slave in New England whose skeleton came to be an exhibit at Connecticut's Mattatuck Museum; includes notes and archiva

African Americans, Connecticut, Poetry, Slavery, Slaves

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The Forbidden Schoolhouse

Suzanne Jurmain

Chronicles the life and struggles of Prudence Crandall who, in the 1830s closed her all-white boarding school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut, and began admitting African-American students; and d

1803-1890, African American women, African Americans, Biography, Connecticut

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Fortune's Bones

Marilyn Nelson

Poem in several voices and the story of the skeletal remains of a slave whose skeleton was kept on display in a museum.

African Americans, American poetry, Connecticut, Poetry, Slavery

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Burning Up

Caroline B. Cooney

When a girl she had met at an inner-city church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparent

Connecticut, fiction, Murder, Racism

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We'll Meet Again

Mary Higgins Clark

A respected and successful young Connecticut doctor, hospital and HMO head is found dead at his desk in his home and his wife is arrested.

Connecticut, fiction, Investigative reporting, Judicial error, Murder

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