Slavery & Morven: A Community Listening Session
Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesThe lives of people enslaved by the Stockton family at Morven and other locations,
Free
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The Price of Silence
Arthur Laurents New Brunswick Performing Arts Theater 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesFilm and panel discussion about slavery in New Jersey.
Free
Reading: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Virtual Zoom EventAnnual community reading of an amended version of Frederick Douglass' influential July 5, 1852 speech.
Free
Runaway Advertisements – One Source for Understanding Slavery
William Trent House Museum 15 Market Street, Trenton, NJ, United StatesResearchers discuss newspaper advertisements taken by enslavers about enslaved persons that is not recorded elsewhere.
Free
Slavery & Morven: A Virtual Listening Session
Virtual Zoom EventHear research findings about the lives of people enslaved by the Stockton family (at Morven and other locations).
Free
Northern Slavery Collective (NorSC) Virtual Networking Event
Virtual EventDiscussion of interpretive challenges with the the Northern Slavery Collective (NorSC).
$5.00
Black Liberation: Seeking Freedom in 18th and 19th Century Newark
Newark Public Library 5 Washington Street, Newark, NJ, United StatesDiscussion of how enslaved people in Newark sought freedom during and after the American Revolution
Free
First Public Session of NJ Reparations Council
Virtual EventThe New Jersey Reparations Council of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice is holding its first public session on the History of Slavery.
Free
Slavery in New Jersey – It Happened Here, Too, Part II
Grounds for Sculpture 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, NJ, United StatesDiscussion of the history of slavery in New Jersey with presentations on research sources and methods
$60.00
The Price of Silence: Film Screening and Discussion
Morven Museum & Garden 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesScreening and panel discussion about The Price of Silence, which shares the history of New Jersey’s enslaved people.
$5
I Dreamed I Was Free
Morven Museum & Garden 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ, United StatesOne-man play by Rich Swingle about John Woolman, who challenged the Philadelphia Yearly Quaker Meeting of 1758 to abolish slavery.
$50.00
Reparations & White Indemnity: The Memory of Slavery in Anti-trafficking Campaigns
Princeton University Morrison Hall Princeton, NJ, United StatesLyndsey P. Beutin will talk about her book Trafficking in Antiblackness's argument that campaigns to end human trafficking use modern-day slavery rhetoric and imagery to circumvent Western historical responsibility for racial chattel slavery.
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