Publisher's Synopsis
Dutch and English pioneers carried the primary subjugated individuals to New Jersey in the seventeenth century. When of the Revolutionary War, subjection was a set up training on work concentrated homesteads all through what became known as the Garden State. The ancestor of the powerful Morris family, Lewis Morris, brought Barbadian captives to work on his home of Tinton Manor in Monmouth County. "Colonel Tye," a got away from slave from Shrewsbury, joined the British "Ethiopian Regiment" during the Revolutionary War and drove attacks all through the towns and towns close to his previous home. Charles Reeves and Hannah Van Clief wedded before long their liberation in 1850 and became conspicuous residents of Lincroft, as did their next four ages. Creator Rick Geffken uncovers stories from New Jersey's dull history of servitude.