Rebecca Primus
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Rebecca Primus was a free African-American woman from Connecticut and is one of the few African-American women whose work in Reconstruction programs has been documented. Her life offers insight into t
Only known photograph of Primus, 2nd row in the middle, wearing large hat with flowers or ruffles
Talcott Street Congregational Church, 1879, where Primus attended church and school in the basement
"I've Lost a Day", Primus, 1854
The Primus Institute, circa 1973
James W. C. Pennington
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James William Charles Pennington was an American historian, abolitionist, orator, minister, writer, and social organizer. Pennington is the first Black student known to have attended Yale University.
Rebecca Primus
…was a self-employed cobbler. The family were members of the Talcott Street Congregational Church, whose pastor was the former slave and abolitionist, James W. C. Pennington. Pennington and his wife Harriet (née Walker) also taught at the school attended by the Primus children, known as the First African School, and located…
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Portrait of James W.C. Pennington (1984)