The next step for the council was to create nine committees that would address various aspects of the brutal and damaging institution of slavery in New Jersey: History of Slavery in New Jersey ...

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy sparked Republican outrage over recent comments suggesting he and the state’s first lady offered ...

Regina Fitzpatrick, New Jersey State Library genealogy librarian, will host an open discussion on slavery laws in 1800s New Jersey at 6 p.m. next Monday, Feb. 10 ...

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin has announced a lawsuit ... Amendment followed the only brief period in American history where the descendants of slaves were held not to be American ...

New Jersey: 1790: In the original 7 free states, slavery has been or is gradually being outlawed: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey 1803 ...

CHATHAM - Historian Michael Snyder will give a presentation on the effects slavery had on Morris County at 2 p.m. this ...

New Jersey. Finley believed that blacks would never be fully integrated into American society and that they would only be able to fulfill their potential as human beings in Africa, the "land of ...

The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 78, No. 1 (AUTUMN-WINTER 2020), pp. 71-87 (17 pages) Gary K. Wolinetz, “New Jersey Slavery and the Law,” Rutgers Law Review 50 (1997–98): 2246. 2. Guy ...

Phyliss Emily Le Breton and her husband John sheltered a Russian slave they named Tom in their home in St Mary. Daughter Carolyn Horn and her family said they were working with Jersey Heritage to ...