NJ History - African American

Afro-Americans In New Jersey   

http://tinyurl.com/2duebt

This extensive history, by Giles R. Wright, of the New Jersey Historical Commission, considers the history and culture of African Americans from colonial times through the 1980’s.

Dunkerhook: A Slave Community?   

http://www.lutins.org/dunkerh.html

Free African Americans in Bergen County, New Jersey built this community before the U.S. Revolution.

Small Towns, Black Lives   

http://blacktowns.org

A documentary containing photographs, descriptions, documents, and video about African American settlements in the southern New Jersey towns of Chesilhurst, Morris Beach, Port Republic, Springtown, Swedesboro, and Whitesboro. 

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