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Department of State

Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission

The Hon. Tahesha Way, Lt. Governor and Secretary of State

The Gradual Abolition of Slavery, the Underground Railroad, and the African Colonization Movement

Grades 5 through 8

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

“Slavery in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ”
Jersey Journeys (February 1999).
Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Society, 52 Park Place, Newark, NJ 07102

Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Legacy Teachers Guide
Program Six. Vistas of Democracy
David S. Cohen. Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission and Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network, 2001

Audio and Video

The Republican Rebellion
A 30-minute television documentary about Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ during the Revolutionary Era. A co-production of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network and the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 1993

Vistas of Democracy
A 30-minute television documentary about the abolitionist and women's movements in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ in the early nineteenth century. A co-production of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network and the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 2000

Gradual Abolition of Slavery (Online Video Clip)

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Documents

Around and About Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Teachers Guides
Program 4, The Still Family Reunion
David S. Cohen. Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 2006

Supplementary Materials
Description of Four Routes of the Underground Railroad Through Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ(1898)

“To Be Sold”, 1797

Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ History Partnership Project:
John Corlies' Advertisement for a Runaway Slave Named Titus (1775)
Samuel Sutphen's Pension Appplication (1834)
Negro Prime's Petititon to the State Legislature (1786)
Act to Prevent the Importation of Slaves (1786)

Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Women's History:
Advertisement for Sale of a Woman Slave (1797)
Manumission of Abigail (1808)
Certificate of Abandonment (1806)

Grades 9 through 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

“The Persistence of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude in a Free State (1685-1866)”
pp. 187-206. In A Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Anthology
Edited and compiled by Maxine N. Lurie.
Simeon F. Moss, Newark: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Society, 1994

Past and Promise: Lives of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Women,
Women's Project of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Sylvia DuBois, pp. 61-63.
Jarena Lee, pp. 77-79.
Charity Still, pp. 86-87.
Betsy Stockton, pp. 87-89

Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Legacy Teachers Guide
Program Six. Vistas of Democracy
David S. Cohen, Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission and Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network, 2001

Afro-Americans in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ: A Short History
Giles R. Wright, Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 1988 (online publication), pp. 25-45

Audio and Video

The Republican Rebellion
A 30-minute television documentary about Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ during the Revolutionary Era. A co-production of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network and the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 1993

Vistas of Democracy
A 30-minute television documentary about the abolitionist and women's movements in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ in the early nineteenth century. A co-production of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network and the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 2000

Gradual Abolition of Slavery (Online Video Clip)

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Select: “Video-Samuel Sutphen

Documents

Words That Make Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
The Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1804), pp. 84-87.
An Advocate of Sending African-Americans to Africa (1824), pp. 90-92

A Manumission of Abigail, 1808

Certificate of Abandonment
Piscataway Township, Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ, 1806

Letter of John S. Rock - 1850

The Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ African-American History Curriculum Guide Grades 9-12
Larry A. Greene and Lenworth Gunther. Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 1997

Petition of Prime for Manumission (1786) pp. 70-71,

“Address to the Citizens of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ” (1850) pp. 86-87, John S. Rock

“Who Shall Not Vote”

Online Lectures

David Steven Cohen, “Robert F. Stockton and the Politics of Monopoly”

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Select: “American Colonization Society

Internet Sites


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