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The Myth and Reality of Slavery in Eastern Connecticut: The Brownes of Salem and Absentee Land Ownership tells the story of absentee landlords and slavery in the region prior to the American Revolution. It also provides detailed research on the importance of tenant farming among free Blacks and whites, which has been largely overlooked by historians. Using an impressive array of primary sources, Stark reinterprets American history based not on hearsay or secondary sources, but on irrefutable, documented facts. This is a masterwork of historical research.

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The Myth and Reality of Slavery in Eastern Connecticut: The Brownes of Salem and Absentee Land Ownership tells the story of absentee landlords and slavery in the region prior to the American Revolution. It also provides detailed research on the importance of tenant farming among free Blacks and whites, which has been largely overlooked by historians. Using an impressive array of primary sources, Stark reinterprets American history based not on hearsay or secondary sources, but on irrefutable, documented facts. This is a masterwork of historical research.
Autorenporträt
Bruce P. Stark is a native of Lyme, Connecticut. An Army veteran, he served two yearsin occupied West Berlin in the 78th USASOU. He graduated from Brown University, earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut, and a library degree from Southern Connecticut State University. In a forty-year career as an archivist and historian, he worked at a number of institutions, including SUNY Platts-burgh, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Connecticut Library, and the Connecticut State Library. He has published extensively on Connecticut history and crafted a number of finding aids on judicial, legislative, and municipal records while at the State Library, his particular areas of expertise. He devoted special attention to materials concerning people of color. He retired in 2009.