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History of slavery in Pennsylvania. When the Dutch and Swedes established colonies in the Delaware Valley of what is now Pennsylvania, in North America, they quickly imported enslaved Africans for labor; the Dutch also transported them south from their colony of New Netherland.
Dec 21, 2015 · Here are 10 historical details, shared by Lloyd, about the history of abolition in N.J. and Newark: On April 19, 1865, Newark held a memorial service for President Abraham Lincoln
The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775–1865. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Price, Clement Alexander. Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1980.
A Newark Sunday school for African Americans opened in 1815, and over 200 people of all ages enrolled. Similar schools opened in Elizabeth, Hackensack, and Aquackanonck. Newark’s first common school was opened in 1826 by the AME Zion Church with both adult and children as students.
Newark was founded in 1666 by Connecticut Puritans led by Robert Treat from the New Haven Colony to avoid losing political power to others not of their own church after the union of the Connecticut and New Haven colonies.
Feb 10, 2000 · Slavery in Newark. Specific examples of slavery in Newark extended from the era of the Puritans to the visit of President Lincoln, from 1666 to 1860 or almost two centuries. A review of these events can probably be best described with a substantial dose of hindsight. In the 1600s Lords Carteret and Berkeley apparently condoned the institution.
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Slave labor was integral to the region even before William Penn (1644-1718) founded Pennsylvania. New Sweden colonists, whose settlement from 1638-1655 centered on present-day Wilmington, Delaware, and extended throughout the lower Delaware Valley, imported the first African slaves in the mid- to late seventeenth century.
