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The Underground Railroad in New Jersey

  • New Jersey Banned the Importation of Slaves

    Although New Jersey banned the inportation of slaves in 1788, they would not allow freed slaves to settle in New Jersey
  • The Grimes Homestead, Mountain Lakes, NJ

    Anti-Slavery Advocate and Quaker, Dr. John Grimes used his homestead as a way station on the Underground Railroad.
  • Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Springtown, NJ

  • Alfred Church, Hardyston, NJ

  • Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, Woolwich Township, NJ

  • Red Maple Farm, Monmouth Township, NJ

  • Holden Hilton House, Jersey City, NJ

  • Rhoads Chapel, Saddlertown, Haddon Township, NJ

  • Peter Mott House, Lawnside Borough, NJ

  • Thomas Vreeland Jackson and John Vreeland Jackson House, Jersey City, NJ

    Thomas Vreeland Jackson and John Vreeland Jackson House, Jersey City, NJ
  • New Jersey Abolished Slavery

  • Last Slave Freed in New Jersey