Chronicling America
Nov 1882
Biography of two people who were born in slavery in New Jersey, as they told it to the newspaper reporter.
See below for Link to full article.
Thank You.
Jose from Clarkston, Michigan
original newspaper link:
Sacramento daily record-union. (Sacramento [Calif.]), 20 Nov. 1882. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014381/1882-11-20/ed-1/seq-1/
Genealogical Collection 
Wow, what a fascinating article! I didn’t know that the northern Dutch had slaves. These first person accounts are so important. Gosh, this ought to be part of a collection like those compiled during the 30s, some of them collected in Julis Lester’s book To Be a Slave.
I was thinking of you when I first read their story because of your family line. All families had slaves or were slaves; you just have to go back a bit further for some family lines.
Thanks for stopping by and for the comment.
Jose from Clarkston, Michigan
I’m glad mine did not. Whew. They were in Holland at the time ;). But that their culture would permit that boggles the mind.
It is interesting to think that culture might have had a hand in the slave trade but the following book seems to give a good account of what really drove the trade. http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/545 —– When I said we all have family ties to slaves; holding or being one I was looking at the larger picture going back dozens of generations.