Continued from Part 1: Limitations...
PART 2: Getting Oriented
At the outset it is important to familiarize yourself with the general and local history of the period you are researching. Read through the research that has already been done, both by the Diocese and by other researchers. Be sure to read through the Diocese of New Jersey Racial Justice Review, especially those articles related to colonial-era history or your local area. There are several helpful books that have been published on the colonial and antebellum history of this region, slavery in this region, and Black history of New Jersey. Familiarize yourself with them. Here are a few to get you started:
Rick Geffken, Stories of Slavery in New Jersey (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2021).
Travis Glasson, Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Graham Hodges, Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865 (Madison: Madison House, 1997).
Graham Hodges, Black New Jersey: 1664 to the Present Day (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018.
(Continued in Part 3: Colonial Era)
Jolyon G. R. Pruszinski, Ph.D.
Reparations Commission Research Historian
Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey
