Rick Geffken explores how the brutal practice of chattel slavery was modeled elsewhere before it became entrenched in colonial New Jersey.
ABB Event | How the Dutch & English Brought Slavery to New Jersey on 3/23/23
Rick Geffken explores how the brutal practice of chattel slavery was modeled elsewhere before it became entrenched in colonial New Jersey.
News | The slave trade thrived in the Meadowlands. A N.J. woman wanted the story told.
By Keith Sargeant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com The shackled men and women were sold door to door. Privateers sailed up the Hackensack River, offering slaves to plantation owners from modern-day Newark to Rutherford. The Africans were lucrative human cargo, seized when the pirates commandeered slave ships in Perth Amboy before fleeing north to … Continue reading News | The slave trade thrived in the Meadowlands. A N.J. woman wanted the story told.