by lindaoppenheim | Apr 12, 2019 | Events
The inaugural fundraiser with the goal of building a public memorial to the 177+ African Americans who were sold into permanent slavery in 1818 by a corrupt Middlesex County judge who resided in East Brunswick. Four ships sailed holding both enslaved and free persons,...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 6, 2019 | Article, Documents, history
“For most Americans, black history begins in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought some “20 and odd Negroes” as slaves to the English colony of Jamestown, in Virginia. Many are not aware that black history in the United States goes back at least a century before this...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 14, 2018 | Events
On Sunday, September 16 at 2 pm at the Princeton Public Library, author and professor Cheryl Finley discusses her book, “Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon.” From the Princeton University Press web site: “One of the most iconic images of slavery is a...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 8, 2017 | Opinion
Julia Craven explains the difference, quoting Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, ” ‘Misrepresenting the process of European colonization of North America, making everyone an immigrant, serves to preserve the ‘official story’ of a mostly benign and benevolent USA . . ....
