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Welcome

Explore the stories, tools, and educational resources that bring the Connecticut Freedom Trail to life.
Whether you are a student, teacher, researcher, or community member, this page offers materials to deepen your understanding of Black history, resistance, and liberation in Connecticut.

NOTE: many of the documents here are not properly organized. If you are familiar with WordPress and would like to volunteer to help organize the CFT’s historic resources, please reach out to Todd Levine.

2008 CFT Strategic Plan

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For Educators

Empower your classroom with curriculum-aligned content focused on African American heritage in Connecticut.

  • Lesson Plan: Coming Soon!
  • Teaching Guide: Coming Soon!
  • Activity Sheet: Coming Soon!
  • CT Freedom Trail Tool Kit: Coming Soon!

Looking to bring the Freedom Trail into your school? Book a school program ➜ Coming Soon!

For Researchers

Dive into a growing archive of historical documents, narratives, and site histories connected to freedom and justice in Connecticut.

Anti-Slavery Conventions

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1841 Anti-Slavery Society in GuilfordDownload
  • Primary Documents Collection
  • Narrative of Nancy Jackson, 1837: Coming Soon!
  • Interactive Map of Historic Trail Sites
  • Academic Articles & Site Bibliography: Coming Soon!

Trail Brochures & Site Maps

Plan your visit with downloadable guides and printable maps.

  • CT Freedom Trail Statewide Brochure (PDF): Coming Soon!
  • Hartford Walking Tour Guide (PDF): Coming Soon!
  • Driving Tour: Black Panther Movement Sites (PDF): Coming Soon!
  • Google Map of Trail Sites

Multimedia Library

Watch, listen, and learn through video, audio, and digital storytelling.

  • Video: Coming Soon!
  • Oral History: Coming Soon!
  • Podcast Episode: Coming Soon!

Freedom Trail Scrapbook (Spotlight Collection)

Step inside the lives of the families and individuals who made history.

Featured This Month: Coming Soon!

See portraits, family letters, and educational records from the 1830s to early 1900s.

  • Digital Scrapbook Collection ➜ Coming Soon!

Community & Cultural Partners

Explore our partner institutions preserving Black history and culture in Connecticut.

  • Amistad Center for Art & Culture
  • Connecticut’s Old State House
  • Witness Stones Project
  • Full List of Freedom Trail Sites

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Wilson, Jamie J. – The Black Panther Party of Connecticut 2014Download
20th Anniversary Celebration of the Connecticut Freedom Trail Bicycle Ride and Quilt Exhibit 2018Download
20th Anniversary Celebration of the Connecticut Freedom trail Bicycle Ride and Quilt Exhibit Sep 22 2018Download
A Celebration of Connecticuts Black Governors ProgramDownload
Abolitionist Dwight P Janes A Real New London HeroDownload
Abolitionist Dwight PDownload
African American Cultural Center – CT Black GovdernorsDownload
American Legacy – Black Governors in Colonial AmericaDownload
Amistad A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary 2005Download
An Exhibit of CT Black Governors Flyer – 2003Download
An Exhibit of CT Black GovernorsDownload
Black Governors Celebration 2003 PlaningDownload
Black Governors Celebration Flyer – 2003Download
Carol Leonard FHS Note – 1993Download
Carol Leonard NoteDownload
Celebrating CT Black Governors – 10_02_03Download
Celebrating CT Black Governors Color Flyer – 2003Download
CFT Strategic Plan – 2008Download
CHS Notes and News – 1990 photocopyDownload
CHS Notes and News – 1990Download
Cinque Lives Here Flyer Copy – 1997Download
CRM Vol. 19 No. 2 – 1996Download
CT Afro-American Historical Society – 1992Download
CT Black Governors Elected By Slaves and Free MenDownload
CT State Historical Preservation Offices – Black GovernorsDownload
Deming FileDownload
Exploring A Common Past_Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad 1998Download
FHS Amistad Exhibit CaptionsDownload
FHS Amistad PhotocopiesDownload
FHS Amistad Quilt Postcard PhotocopyDownload
FHS Amistad Quilt PostcardDownload
FHS Getty Granite Company Quote 1997Download
FHS Resources 1993Download
FHS The Paths They Walked Flyer – 1994Download
Free Men The Amistad Revolt and the American Anti-Slavery Movement Photo CopyDownload
Free Men The Amistad Revolt and the American Anti-Slavery Movement ScanDownload
Free Men The Amistad Revolt and the American Anti-Slavery MovementDownload
Freedom Trail Files Repository – VolpeDownload
Freedom Trail in Farmington – FHSDownload
Guide to the Survey of Historic Resources Associated With African-Americans in New York StateDownload
Hartford Courant – Hartford African American Day Parade 2003Download
Hartford Courant 1994 – Preserving the Amistad Slaves HomeDownload
Hurlburt – Farmington Town Clerks and Their Times 1943Download
Map of Underground Railroad and Amistad Sites – Farmington CT 1830-1841Download
New Haven Colony Historical Society – Cinque Lives Here Flyer 1997Download
New Haven Colony Historical Society Journal – Vol. 20 Num. 1 May-June 1971Download
New Haven Vital Records 1649-1850Download
New Haven Vital RecordsDownload
Norton Family InformationDownload
Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society Vol_ VIDownload
Photocopy of CFT Opening Program 1996Download
Rogers Cultural Center Board of Directors – 10_2003Download
Setting the Record Straight – AmistadDownload
Setting the Record Straight – The Amistad TrialDownload
The Amistad Revolt- Struggle for FreedomDownload
The Austin Williams HouseDownload
The Black Holocaust Memorial Flyer September 20 2014Download
The Black Holocaust memorial service pamphletDownload
The Official Opening of the CT Freedom Trail Memorial Ceremony at the grave of Foone Program – 1996Download
URR Resources in the United States Theme Study – September 1998Download
Venture Smiths Colonial CT FlyerDownload
Wilson, Jamie J. – The Black Panther Party of Connecticut 2014Download
29th CV infantryDownload
29th nonprofit list of soldiersDownload
29th noteDownload
A letter signed by two Black Continental SolidersDownload
African American Church history timelineDownload
African Americans and the US NavyDownload
Alfred Narcisse CFT bioDownload
Black Churches from WikiDownload
Black Soldiers Welcomed Home New Haven Register 1986Download
CT Legislation pertaining to negros indians servants and slavesDownload
History of the 29th by the nonprofitDownload
History of the 29thDownload
Journal Inquirer 1997 29th Diana Ross McCainDownload
NoteDownload
The Day the 29th came Home by Alan GreenDownload
Windley_Rainey address_phone numbersDownload
Windsor Historian Studies Black SatesmanDownload
Windsor Historical Society NewsletterDownload
299 Palisado Avenue_Summer home letterDownload
Article on Joseph Rainey barber shop _BermudaDownload
Bike The Freedom Trail SitesDownload
CartoonDownload
Cartoon of Jefferson DavisDownload
ChronologyDownload
Family Gospelfest_1999Download
From The Steeple_articleDownload
Joseph Hayne Rainey_ US Rep_South CarolinaDownload
Joseph Rainey_postcardDownload
Leading Black Officeholders_South CarolinaDownload
Mary Ann Pleva _letterDownload
More facts on Joseph RaineyDownload
More facts_HouseDownload
Rainey Bermuda HomeDownload
Rainey DeedDownload
Rainey statsDownload
Rainey-Camlin House_South CarolinaDownload
Robert Johnson House Inventory FormDownload
Robert Sillimans letter toThomas CurranDownload
SHPO Inventory FormDownload
South Carolina Leading Black OfficeholdersDownload
The Bermuda National Trust MuseumDownload
The Fighting CongressmenDownload
The Joseph Rainey StoryDownload
Thomas Windley Letter to Cora MurrayDownload
Windsor Historian Studies Black SatesmanDownload
Windsor Historical Society NewsletterDownload
Windley_Rainey address_phone numbersDownload
Windsor Palisado CemeteryDownload
Windsor Riverside Cemetery 1Download
Windsor Riverside Cemetery 2Download
AME Zion Church DOT Report 1992Download
Archer Memorial AMC Zion Church HISTORYDownload
Archer Memorial AME Zion Church history 1979Download
Church history rediscoveredDownload
Excerpt from the Town of Windsor Historic Survey 1981Download
Frontage Road Cemetery mapDownload
Journal Inquirer articleDownload
Partial Richardson Windsor Journal article 1993Download
Richardson appointedDownload
Sandy Archer and AME Zion ChurchDownload
Sandy Archer death certificateDownload
Windsor Journal 1993Download
Final Report for Research on African Methodist Episcopal and African Episcopal Zion Churches of ConnecticutDownload