I was a free Black person who fought for everyone’s freedom in the Revolution. I enlisted for the duration of the war as a fifer in the 3rd New Jersey Regiment. I endured the terrible winter of ’77-’78 at the Valley Forge encampment. When summer came, we crossed the Delaware River and camped out in…

I was born in Africa and taken from my homeland as a child. I arrived in Princeton, New Jersey, enslaved and brought into the household of Dr. Absalom Bainbridge, a respected physician who would later declare loyalty to the British crown. I was known as Prime. I lived and labored in the Bainbridge House on…

I was born around 1750 on the coast of Africa. When I was just ten years old, I was taken from my homeland and brought across the Atlantic to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where I was sold into slavery. I became the property of William Whipple, a merchant who would go on to sign the Declaration…

I was a Lenni-Lenape, born of a people whose roots stretch back over 13,000 years on this land we called home. Long before Europeans arrived, we walked the trails of what is now New Jersey, traded along its rivers, and lived in balance with the earth. When the Dutch and English came, we welcomed trade…

I was a free black man who proudly served my new country. My origins are a little mysterious, I was born in the village of Black Horse in Burlington County, and some believe I was a mulatto – with white and black parents – while others think I may have been Indian. I was probably…

I started life in servitude and ended it in freedom. I was born in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County in 1754. My mother was a black woman and I was an indentured servant for a local farmer. My servitude was resold several times until I was about 13 years old, and my last master Joseph Saxton…

I was the Clarke Family Slave and witnessed the Battle of Princeton. The battle that took place on the farms of my owners was something that we did not at all expect. My seven owners were all related and were Quakers; people who were pacifists and did not want to be involved in the war…