Lathen was the property of Barcalow, who was an enslaver in a time when slavery remained legal in New Jersey. Historian Sue ...

New Jersey: 1790: In the original 7 free states, slavery has been or is gradually being outlawed: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey 1803 ...

UPDATE: A South Jersey couple was convicted of forcing a pair of undocumented immigrants into slavery by threatening ... U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip Sellinger said. Originally from Nigeria ...

While attention has focused on Latino migrants, increased ICE raids and stricter policies are impacting various immigrant groups in New Jersey. Haitian immigrants are facing deportation and ...

New Jersey. Finley believed that blacks would never be fully integrated into American society and that they would only be able to fulfill their potential as human beings in Africa, the "land of ...