{"id":616,"date":"2026-03-10T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=616"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:24:13","slug":"ann-plato-biographical-and-critical-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Ann Plato &#8211; Biographical and Critical Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">References<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Welburn, Ron.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hartford\u2019s Ann Plato and the Native Borders of Identity<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Williams, Kenny J. Introduction to\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Plato, Ann.\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0Hartford, 1841.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Beeching, Barbara.\u00a0 <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hopes and Expectations: The Origins of the Afro-American Middle Class in Hartford, Connecticut, 1790\u20131860<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Public Resources<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ConnecticutHistory.org \u2013 Articles on Hartford\u2019s Black history<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Connecticut State Library digital newspaper archives<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Poetry Foundation biography of Lydia Huntley Sigourney<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>References\u00a0 Welburn, Ron.\u00a0\u00a0Hartford\u2019s Ann Plato and the Native Borders of Identity. Williams, Kenny J. Introduction to\u00a0Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces. Plato, Ann.\u00a0Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry.\u00a0Hartford, 1841. Beeching, Barbara.\u00a0 Hopes and Expectations: The Origins of the Afro-American Middle Class in Hartford, Connecticut, 1790\u20131860.\u00a0 Public Resources\u00a0 ConnecticutHistory.org \u2013 Articles on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ann Plato &#8211; Biographical and Critical Sources<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ann-plato"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}