Document Type

Article

Version Deposited

Published Version

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

New Jersey History

DOI

/10.14713/njh.v127i1.1752

Abstract

Slavery in New Jersey offers scholars a rich, untapped source for new scholarship about the meaning of freedom and liberty from the Founding Era to the Civil War. Kean University recently sponsored a panel discussion featuring three scholars and their research into the story of slavery in the Garden State. This opening essay offers a summation of the Kean panel's findings, and offers encouragement to other scholars of slavery in the state

Comments

This is an Open Access work under a Creative Commons license. New Jersey History was published by Rutgers University Libraries from 2009 to 2013.

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