The Jocelyn sisters of New Haven : young women of the mid-nineteenth century / December 16, 1981 / by Sue E. Fuller.

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The Jocelyn sisters of New Haven : young women of the mid-nineteenth century / December 16, 1981 / by Sue E. Fuller.

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Quotes from their diaries about Cinque and the prisoners of the Amistad, about their teaching at the African church school in New Haven, Conn., and attending an Anti-Slavery Society meeting in New York, New York, to hear Frederick Douglass speak.

1 v. ; 29 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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Cinque, d. 1879.

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African Church School (New Haven, Conn.)

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Amistad (Schooner)

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Fuller, Sue Elizabeth.

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