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‘Best Kept Secret,’ African Americans in the Sourlands

by lindaoppenheim | Apr 9, 2014 | Events

We don’t usually think of New Jersey as a slave state, Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills told an interviewer, Caroline Katmann. But slavery was present here since the 17th century. The governor enticed settlers with the offer of slaves — one slave for every 75...

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