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Passaic County Manumission Records (4 records)
Records Relating to Slaves and Children of Slaves: New Jersey (references to specific sources/lists)
Slave Ships on the Delaware
Small Towns, Black Lives

Bibliography

General:
African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. New Jersey churches and associations. /Microfilm Rolls 59/

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society New Jersey Chapter Newsletter. Jersey City, NJ: The Chapter, v.5-9, 1993-96. /Periodical/

Bilby, Joseph G. Forgotten Warrior: New Jersey's African American Soldiers in the Civil War. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1993. 72p. Bibliography. Drawings. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 N39bi/

The Black Experience in Southern New Jersey. Camden, NJ: Camden County Historical Society, 1985. 48p. Notes. Papers presented at a symposium February 11 & 12, 1984. /GC 974.901 C14bl/

Fishman, George. The African American Struggle for Freedom and Equality: The Development of a People's Identity, New Jersey, 1624-1850. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. 286p. Bibliography. Index. /GC 974.9 F539a/

Hodges, Graham Russell & Alan Edward Brown. "Pretends to Be Free" Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994. 369p. Appendices. Bibliography. Glossary. Indices. /GC 974.7 H665p/

Jersey Heritage. Jersey City, NJ: New Jersey Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, v.1-, 1992-. /Periodical/

Marrin, Richard B. Runaways of Colonial New Jersey: Indentured Servants, Slaves, Deserters, and Prisoners, 1720-1781. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2007. 365p. Index. /GC 974.9 M34ru/

Marshall, Kenneth E. Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2011. 208p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs/ GC 974.9 M355ma/

Minority Military Service, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, 1775-1783. Washington, DC: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1998. 38p. Notes. /GC 973.34 Aa1mina/

NJ-AAHGS Newsletter. Jersey City, NJ: The Chapter, v.9-, 1996-. /Periodical/

Pawley, James A. The Negro Church in New Jersey. Hackensack, NJ: Works Project Administration, 1938. 55p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.9 P28n/

Price, Clement Alexander, ed. Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1980. 334p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.9 P932f/

Rizzo, Dennis. Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2008. 160p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.9 R452p/

Sinclair, Donald A. The Negro and New Jersey: A Checklist of Books, Pamphlets, Official Publications, Broadsides, and Dissertations, 1754-1964 in the Rutgers University Library. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Library, 1965. 56p. Bibliography. /GC 974.9/

Slave Schedules for 1850 - New Jersey. Washington, DC: The National Archives, 1964. Microcopy 432. /Microfilm Roll 466/

Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in New Jersey and New York. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006. 182p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Sw67una/

Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. Underground Railroad. /Microfilm Roll 6/

Wright, Giles R. Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1988. 100p. Appendices. Photographs. /GC 974.9 W93a/

Atlantic County:
Goddard, Richlyn F. "Three Months to Hurry and Nine Months to Worry": Resort Life for African Americans in Atlantic City, NJ (1850-1940). Washington, DC: R. F. Goddard, 2001. 205p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.901 At6go/

Bergen County:
Book of Black Birth in Bergen County, N.J. Between 1804 and 1844 As Recorded in the Bergen County Clerk's Office at Hackensack. Englewood, NJ: Bergen Historic Books, Inc., 1999. 188p. Indices. /GC 974.901 B45gy/

Burlington County:
Pernot, M.M., ed. Freedom Papers: 1776-1781. Burlington, NJ: Burlington County Historical Society, 1984. 39p. /GC 974.901 B92fr/

Essex County:
Anderson, John R. Negro Education in the Public Schools of Newark, New Jersey During the Nineteenth Century. New Brunswick, NJ: J. R. Anderson, 1972. 568p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.902 N51an/

Hunterdon County:
Stevens, Stephanie B. Outcast: A Story of Slavery in Readington Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. White House Station, NJ: Merck& Co., Inc., 2003. 80p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.901 H91sta/

Monmouth County:
Hodges, Graham Russell. Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1997. 238p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 974.901 M75ho/

Manumission Book of Monmouth County, New Jersey 1791-1844. Freehold, NJ: Office of the Monmouth County Clerk, 1992. 75p. Indices. Illustrations. /GC 974.901 M75man/

Walling, Richard S. Men of Color at the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778: The Role of African Americans and Native Americans at Monmouth. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1994. 36p. Bibliography. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 973.34 AA1Wall/

Morris County:
Mitros, David. Jacob Green and the Slavery Debate in Revolutionary Morris County, New Jersey. Morristown, NJ: Morris County Heritage Commission, 1993. 72p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.901 M83mi/

Union County:
Bethel, Leonard L. and Frederick A. Johnson, eds. Plainfield's African-American: From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. 153p. Photographs. Index. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.902 P69pl/

Washington, Ethel M. Union County Black Americans. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004. 128p. Bibliography. Photographs. Black America Series /GC 974.901 Un3w/

Washington, Ethel M. Union County's Black Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011. 207p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 N39wa/

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