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Stories of Slavery in NJ – with Rick Geffken

New Jersey Room - Priscilla Gardner Main Library 472 Jersey Ave., Jersey City, NJ, United States

Slavery was “baked into” New Jersey from its very beginnings. In the 1664-65 Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret granted prospective colonists 75 acres of land “for every weaker servant, or slave, male or female, exceeding the age […]