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| William C. Nell, The American Revolution with Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Americans (Boston: Wallcut, 1855), page number not supplied; New York Public Library (https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-962c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99). |
NERGC 2019 Lectures To Include Janice Lovelace, Ph.D., on
Slavery in New England and the Black Experience in the American Revolution
It only happens once every two years. It takes two dozen genealogy societies, acting in tandem, to put on the NERGC conference, an event with as many genealogy learning opportunities as a national genealogy conference. But NERGC is always in New England, often close enough for many of us to commute rather than incur the travel and hotel expenses that come with the national conferences. NERGC 2019 runs April 3rd to 6th in Manchester, New Hampshire.
My specialty is New England research in the colonial period,
specifically Connecticut and Massachusetts. About 25% of my ancestors come from
that time and place. (The other 75% are Swedish, Danish, English, Irish,
Scottish, and Belgian, with a tiny bit of Spanish.) That small quarter of my
heritage has been a huge research task with many years invested in tracing
people back.
One of those people was an enslaver in 1790. When I found
this, I carefully counted the number of slave owners in Stratford, Fairfield
County, Connecticut. It turns out that
