James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what… Continue reading “VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALK – The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson”
Southern New Jersey was a hotbed of slave fugitives, freedmen and abolitionists in the Civil War era. Activists such as Harriet Tubman, Abigail Goodwin and Benjamin Sheppard assisted runaway slaves… Continue reading “VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALK – Abolition and the Underground Railroad in South Jersey”
As a northern state, New Jersey and its role in African Americans’ struggles for civil rights is often overlooked or disregarded in favor of the narratives coming from southern states.… Continue reading “VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALK – The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey”
The New Jersey Industrial and Manual Training School for Colored Youth, also known simply as the “Bordentown School,” was an African-American boarding school operated by the State of New Jersey.… Continue reading “Digitized Collection of Historic African American Bordentown School Newspaper”
