Local school teacher, Dana Nelson is again encouraging young minds in assigning history projects for these young students and working through the Hagaman Library and the East Haven Historical Society.  One of the topics was "Slavery in East Haven." I've uploaded a number of documents that can be accessed through the library's website on the left sidebar under

East Haven Historical Books and Documents Online

Scroll down once you reach the page.  You may find here the horrifying, as in this 1766 "Deed of sale for a Negro boy"

 

But also a document of abolition. Zebulon Farren, as seen in the document below,  purchased a servant girl, Sophia setting her free the same day for "divers good causes."