“Slavery in New Jersey”
Jersey Journeys (February 1999).
New Jersey Historical Society, 52 Park Place, Newark, NJ 07102
New Jersey Legacy Teachers Guide
Program Six. Vistas of Democracy
David S. Cohen. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission and New Jersey Network, 2001
The Republican Rebellion
A 30-minute television documentary about New Jersey during the Revolutionary Era. A co-production of New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1993
Vistas of Democracy
A 30-minute television documentary about the abolitionist and women's movements in New Jersey in the early nineteenth century. A co-production of New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 2000
Gradual Abolition of Slavery (Online Video Clip)
Select: “Enter”
Select: “American Revolution”
Select: “African Americans”
Select: “Video-Samuel Sutphen”
Around and About New Jersey Teachers Guides
Program 4, The Still Family Reunion
David S. Cohen. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 2006
Supplementary Materials
Description of Four Routes of the Underground Railroad Through New Jersey(1898)
“To Be Sold”, 1797
New Jersey History Partnership Project:
John Corlies' Advertisement for a Runaway Slave Named Titus (1775)
Samuel Sutphen's Pension Appplication (1834)
Negro Prime's Petititon to the State Legislature (1786)
Act to Prevent the Importation of Slaves (1786)
New Jersey Women's History:
Advertisement for Sale of a Woman Slave (1797)
Manumission of Abigail (1808)
Certificate of Abandonment (1806)
“The Persistence of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude in a Free State (1685-1866)”
pp. 187-206. In A New Jersey Anthology
Edited and compiled by Maxine N. Lurie.
Simeon F. Moss, Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1994
Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women,
Women's Project of New Jersey, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Sylvia DuBois, pp. 61-63.
Jarena Lee, pp. 77-79.
Charity Still, pp. 86-87.
Betsy Stockton, pp. 87-89
New Jersey Legacy Teachers Guide
Program Six. Vistas of Democracy
David S. Cohen, Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission and New Jersey Network, 2001
Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History
Giles R. Wright, Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1988 (online publication), pp. 25-45
The Republican Rebellion
A 30-minute television documentary about New Jersey during the Revolutionary Era. A co-production of New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1993
Vistas of Democracy
A 30-minute television documentary about the abolitionist and women's movements in New Jersey in the early nineteenth century. A co-production of New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 2000
Gradual Abolition of Slavery (Online Video Clip)
Select: “Enter”
Select: “American Revolution”
Select: “African Americans”
Select: “Video-Samuel Sutphen”
Words That Make New Jersey History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
The Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1804), pp. 84-87.
An Advocate of Sending African-Americans to Africa (1824), pp. 90-92
A Manumission of Abigail, 1808
Certificate of Abandonment
Piscataway Township, New Jersey, 1806
Letter of John S. Rock - 1850
The New Jersey African-American History Curriculum Guide Grades 9-12
Larry A. Greene and Lenworth Gunther. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997
Petition of Prime for Manumission (1786) pp. 70-71,
“Address to the Citizens of New Jersey” (1850) pp. 86-87, John S. Rock
“Who Shall Not Vote”
David Steven Cohen, “Robert F. Stockton and the Politics of Monopoly”
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Select: “Market Revolution”
Select: “2nd Party System”
Select: “Online Lecture-David Cohen”
Select: “American Colonization Society”