African slavery did take place in New Jersey, and because Jersey was the last state in the North to abolish slavery, activists have been asking legislators to establish a committee to examine the role Black enslavement played in the past and present.
and now a professor of history, race, and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Before an audience that included advocates and legislators, NJISJ’s Haygood said, “We are not afraid to say the word ‘reparations’!” He asserted that the harms of African slavery and the discriminatory practices waged against New Jersey’s Black citizens after slavery cannot be ignored. Enslaved Black labor helped make New Jersey one of the wealthiest states in the country today. During slavery, the place that today is nicknamed the Garden State could rightly have been referred to as the Slave State of the North, one historian noted: By 1830, New Jersey held more than two-thirds of all the enslaved people in bondage in the North.
New Jersey’s original sin of slavery led to housing discrimination, exclusionary bank lending, and other race-based practices that continued to persecute the state’s people of African descent.
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