Never Forget Webinar Recording
A recording of our recent webinar Never Forget: The Slave Trade and Middle Passage on New Jersey's Shores is now available. We are also pleased to share answers to a list of questions the panelists were not able to address during the session.
New Jersey’s shores were sites for the international slave trade in the eighteenth century. This panel, recorded on Wednesday, February 23, at 6 p.m., honored the lives of the people sold here, shared the history of the Middle Passage in New Jersey and highlighted the recently installed historical markers that memorialize this injustice. Feature panelists included Ann Chinn, Director of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project; Derek Davis, Board Member, Camden County Historical Society; and William Galeta, Independent Scholar. The panel will be moderated by Noelle Lorraine Williams. RJ McDowell, the daughter of New Jersey's beloved poet and author Sandra Turner Barnes, recited two of her mother's poems in her honor.
This panel is the fourth in the African American History Program series Black Is: African American History and Sites in New Jersey.
COVID-19 Resources for New Jersey History and Cultural Organizations
New Jersey’s Indigenous Voices Speaker Series
The NJ Historical Commission is hosting a series of virtual programs to facilitate a deeper and more complex public understanding of Indigenous history and life in New Jersey and beyond the state’s colonized borders. This series was made possible with support from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and developed in partnership with the New Jersey Commission on American Indian Affairs. Please see below links to past recordings and resources:
New Jersey Indigenous History Education
New Jersey Indigenous Education Report
Sharing the Continuing Story of Indigenous Peoples in New Jersey
Sharing the Continuing Story of Indigenous Peoples in New Jersey Webinar Recording
Sharing the Continuing Story of Indigenous Peoples in New Jersey Resources List
Exploring Indigeneity: Native Identity and Expression
Exploring Indigeneity: Native Identity and Expression Webinar Recording
Native American Mascots: Creating Change in New Jersey
Native American Mascots: Creating Change in New Jersey Webinar Recording
New Jersey, The Last Northern State to End Slavery
By Noelle Lorraine Williams, Director, African American History Program, New Jersey Historical Commission
In June 2021, the NJHC marked the state’s newest state holiday, Juneteenth, by exploring the people, laws, and economic leaders that kept African Americans enslaved in New Jersey until 1865. This essay discusses the origins of Juneteenth and New Jersey’s singular relationship with the holiday.
On June 16, 2021, Noelle moderated a panel of that same name featuring Dr. James Amemasor, Will Likely Endeavor to Pass for Free’: Runaway Slave Advertisements in New Jersey Newspapers, 1777-1808, and Dr. James J. Gigantino, The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865. Check out a recording of the event.
The NJHC marked the day of Juneteenth with a virtual conversation between Noelle and New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way about the holiday and its legacy in the state. Don’t miss the full conversation to learn more.
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