Introduction Continued

1) "To Be Sold," an advertisement for the sale of a 19-year-old slave woman that appeared in a Trenton newspaper on May 30, 1797.

2) "Certificate of Abandonment," a manuscript document, from 1806 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, freeing a slave owner from any obligations to the baby daughter born to her slave, Judy.

3) "Who Shall not Vote," an excerpt from the 1807 New Jersey law which limited the franchise to free, white men.

4) "Manumission of Abigal," a manuscript document freeing the slave woman Abigal in Piscataway, Middlesex County, 1808.

5) "Portrait of a Scrubwoman," a rare 1822 drawing of an enslaved scrubwoman, 1822.

6) "The Manumission of Ann and Rufus Johnson," two manuscript documents from Belvidere, Warren County, freeing a married slave couple in 1828 and verifying the birth dates of their four children and the years in which these children would be free from the legal obligation to work for the Johnson’s former mistress.

7) "Portrait of Jarena Lee (1783-unknown)," an 1843 drawing of the first known woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a free African American woman from Cape May.

8) "The Little Wanderer," two documents, a poem written c. 1840 by Esther "Hetty" Saunders (1793-1862) from Salem County, the daughter of an escaped slave from Delaware, and a pencil portrait of Saunders.


	Elementary \| Middle School \| High School \| Home \| Topical Index \| Links \| Standards