Connecticut abolished slavery in 1848.

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CONNECTICUT ABOLISHED SLAVERY IN 1848, and emancipated children of slaves in 1784. Harriet Beecher Stowe's house in Hartford has been nominated to be a National Historic Landmark. So when Congressman Joe Courtney (D) saw the movie "Lincoln," he was surprised that it portrayed two of the four members of the Connecticut congressional delegation voting against the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery, when all four actually supported it. He wrote to director Steven Spielberg asking him to correct it before the DVD release. "How could congressmen from Connecticut--a state that supported President Lincoln and lost thousands of her sons fighting against slavery on the Union side of...