(RED BANK, NJ) -- On Sunday, January 24, the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center will host the book launch of Rick Geffken's Stories of Slavery in New Jersey.  The event will be presented by ZOOM between 8:00am and 4:00pm.   Dr. Walter D. Greason, president of the T. Thomas Fortune Foundation (who wrote the book's Foreword) will introduce the author for a talk and Q&A about the book.

Dutch and English settlers brought the first enslaved people to New Jersey in the seventeenth century. By the time of the Revolutionary War, slavery was an established practice on labor-intensive farms throughout what became known as the Garden State. The progenitor of the influential Morris family, Lewis Morris, brought Barbadian slaves to toil on his estate of Tinton Manor in Monmouth County. "Colonel Tye," an escaped slave from Shrewsbury, joined the British "Ethiopian Regiment" during the Revolutionary War and led raids throughout the towns and villages near his former home. Charles Reeves and Hannah Van Clief married soon after their emancipation in 1850 and became prominent citizens of Lincroft, as did their next four generations. Author Rick Geffken reveals stories from New Jersey's dark history of slavery.

A $50 donation will benefit the T. Thomas Cultural Center and includes a preview of Gilda Rogers' new video "Entwined for Survival, Monmouth County's Native American People & Its Black Enslaved Population" and signed copies of two books: Stories of Slavery in New Jersey and To Preserve and Protect (Rick Geffken's book on Monmouth County historians).

Registration for the event may be done online.  You will be emailed a link to the exclusive Zoom invitation for the event.

The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center is located at 94 Drs. James Parker Blvd in Red Bank, New Jersey.

 

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