School Units

There are three works dealing with Connecticut black history prepared for school use.

Parsons, David L. “Slavery in Connecticut, 1640-1848.” In The Present as History. New Haven: Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Curriculum Units, 1980. VI: 116-36. Designed for inner-city sixth graders, readily adaptable to junior- and senior-high classes.

Rogers, John E. A Bicentennial Booklet for the Innercity. West Hartford: University of Hartford, 1975. Slick, with many illustrations. The author calls it a book of “biographic profiles” for teachers to incorporate into their curricula at all levels. Highlights black Connecticuters’ contributions to the Revolutionary War.

Roper, John. “The Struggle of Connecticut Blacks for Equality in the 18th and 19th Centuries.” In Curriculum Units on Connecticut History. New Haven: Yale Institute on Connecticut History, 1981. II:62-88.