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New Jersey residents might like to think that, as Northerners, we don t share the South s brutal slave history.
We would be wrong. New Jersey was known as the slave state of the North, said Elaine Buck, who co-founded the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum in Hopewell with Beverly Mills in 2018.
The legacy of slavery is hidden in plain sight all over the map, in family names like Berkeley, Carteret, Beverwyck, Morris, Livingston and Schuyler, whose wealth and power was founded, in part, on slave labor.
We would be wrong. New Jersey was known as the slave state of the North, said Elaine Buck, who co-founded the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum in Hopewell with Beverly Mills in 2018.
The legacy of slavery is hidden in plain sight all over the map, in family names like Berkeley, Carteret, Beverwyck, Morris, Livingston and Schuyler, whose wealth and power was founded, in part, on slave labor.
In 1800, there were about 12,000 slaves in the state. By 1830, New Jersey was home to more than two-thirds of the entire slave population of the North.
Bergen County was the state s slaveholding center. Scholars estimate that by the late 1700s, enslaved people made up about 20% of Bergen s population and 40% of its labor force.