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Lunch and Learn: New Jersey after the U.S. Constitution Abolished Slavery in 1865

  • Cape May Lutheran Church 509 Pittsburgh Avenue Cape May, NJ, 08204 United States (map)

Rick Geffken returns to discuss the Garden State’s evolving attitudes after New Jersey was the last northern state to ratify the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery everywhere. Jim Crow laws and attitudes legalized racial segregation. How did New Jersey “white wash” its history of slavery from books and the public educational system?

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Life on the Clarke Farm: The Civilian Experience During British Occupation