Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865

by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

New Jersey was among the last northern states to abandon slavery.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 1997

About the author

Graham Russell Gao Hodges is the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies at Colgate University.

Reviews

[Catherine Symchych]

This book kept circling around to the ways the various churches and religions dealt with slaves in New Jersey. It didn’t feel particularly well-written even without that. I read it because my ancestors came from that area. Now to go back through and cross reference my many bookmarks with my genealogy charts.

[Vivian]

still reading it on occasion. Being from New Jersey in Monmouth County, it was for me to read. It is interesting. Got to get family interested in history. Always.