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TitleAfrican Burying Ground, Bedminster, 2016 - Image 1 of 2
Date Created1801-2016
DescriptionThis marker designates the location of a burial ground for African American residents of Bedminster, both free men and slaves. Research by members of the Somerset County Historical Society uncovered...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861), Contemporary America (1968-present)
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TitleSermon to Returning Civil War Soldiers, 1861
AuthorTaylor, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Cook)
Date Created1861
DescriptionSermon preached by Rev. Benjamin C. Taylor, pastor, in Bergen Reformed Church on 2nd Samuel 10:12 - "Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people and for the cities of our God: and the...
Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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TitleBill of Sale for Slave, Jin, 1791
Date Created1791
DescriptionBill of sale in which Mindert Garrabrance sells to Marytie Garrabrance a female slave named Jin and her two children, for the sum of "Forty Pounds New York Currency." Dated May 26, 1791. Signature...
Time PeriodRevolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)
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TitleA True and Perfect Inventory of the Personal Estate of Garrabrant Garrabrants Deceas'd taken by us Robert Sickels Executor and Marytie Garrabrants Executrix
Date Created1791
DescriptionList of possessions of landholder and farmer, including prices in pounds/shillings/pence. Includes housewares and farm implements, as well as livestock and "1 Neagroe Man."
Time PeriodRevolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)
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TitleA True and perfect Inventory of all and singular the good and chattles, rights, and credits, of Garret J. Newkirk late of the township of Bergen, in the County of Bergen Deceas'd made by us whose names are hereunto Subscribed, the twenty sixth day of December in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
AuthorNewkirk, Garret J.
Date Created1818
DescriptionInventory of the estate of Garret Newkirk, November 16, 1818, including three slaves as well as tools and products of a farm estate. An example of the possessions of a well-off farm, and the relative...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleGarrison, W[illia]m Lloyd, letter, Roxbury, [Mass.], March 5, 1875, to [William] Still.
Date Created1875
DescriptionWilliam Lloyd Garrison acknowledges the receipt of William Still’s letter requesting a reply by a certain date; reports that there is no possibility of his attending the centennial of the...
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TitleJoris Janzen Van Horne and his Descendants
AuthorWilliams, C. S.; Irving, Washington
Date Created1911
DescriptionDetailed listing of marriages and children descending from the 1666 marriage of Joris Jansen (of Hoorn) and Maria Rutgers (of Amersfoort). Introduction and early entries describe communities in...
Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763), Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820), The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleJan Cornelis Van Horne and his Descendants
AuthorWilliams, C. S.
Date Created1912
DescriptionTraces descendants of Dutch immigrant who came to New Netherlands colony circa 1645. Family settled in New Amsterdam (Manhattan), Long Island, central New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts....
Time PeriodColonization and Settlement (1585-1763), Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820), The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleCuerpos incómodos: tecnologías del género y la raza en La Habana colonial (1790-1850)
AuthorRojo Posada, Roseli
Date Created2022
Degree Date2021-05
DescriptionCuerpos Incómodos: Tecnologías del género y la raza en La Habana Colonial (1790-1850) explores how women, slaves, and freed Afro-descendants challenged the segregationist politics of the Creole...
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TitleModern Day Slavery - Human Trafficking
Date Created2016