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The Government and the Immigrant Press: Notes on Some Nineteenth Century New Jersey Government Publications in the German Language
No full textJohn and Susan Kean And the Culture of Slavery in the New Nation
Get PDFAbstract: The correspondence of John and Susan Kean, opened only recently at Liberty Hall Museum / Kean University, offers a first-hand glimpse of slaveholding after the triumph of the American Revolution. The couple’s letters narrate a story of contradiction, complexity, and paradox
Testing "Liberty" in New Jersey, 1775-1793: The Intersection of Slavery and Select Manumission Supreme Court Cases
Get PDFAbstract: Through an examination of materials from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania collections (the Richard Waln Papers and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society Papers) and the New Jersey State Archives, the paper highlights select sample writs of habeas corpus and manumission cases before the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1775-1783. The stories narrated in these documents tells a story of freedom – and lack of freedom – in New Jersey during and after the American Revolution
A Bio-Bibliographic Account of Two Rare Zenger Imprints and the Published Sermons of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, Minister of the Raritan Churches
No full textThe purpose of this study is to describe technically a very rare collection of two sermons in Dutch printed at New York by John Peter Zenger in 1729, and also by him in 1731 in an English translation, extended to five sermons, both of which are possessed by the University's Library. In further elucidation biographical sketches are presented of the three persons concerned —author, translator, and printer; also a check-list of Domine Frelinghuysen's sermons that are known to have been printed
