PROJECT29:
SHARING THE STORIES OF NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT'S AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
Sources
Our thinking about the 29th Connecticut and its history has been shaped by the following sources:
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Hunter, Tera W. Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century.The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
Lande, Jonathan. “Trials of Freedom: African American Deserters during the U.S. Civil War,” Journal of Social History 43, no. 3 (Spring 2016), 693-709.
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