T. Thomas Fortune Foundation Cultural Center to host book launch of Rick Geffken’s “Stories of Slavery in New Jersey”

The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center will host the book launch of Rick Geffken’s Stories of Slavery in New Jersey.

Dr. Walter G. Greason, president of the T. Thomas Fortune Foundation, who wrote the book’s foreword, will introduce Rick for a talk and a Q&A about the book.

Stories of Slavery in New Jersey chronicles the history on slavery in the Garden State:

“Dutch and English settlers brought the first enslaved people to New Jersey in the seventeenth century. By the time of the Revolutionary War, slavery was an established practice on labor-intensive farms throughout what became known as the Garden State,” a synopsis reads.

The event will take place Sunday January 24, 2021. Read the flyer below for more information or visit the T. Thomas Fortune Foundation website.