A New Jersey native who discovered his family owned slaves in the 1700s and 1800s is working to document a small Essex County town’s history — including that of dozens of enslaved people whose remains he believes are in a cemetery there.
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The half-dozen researchers hope to show, through continued exploration of primary historical records and through the use of ground-penetrating radar in the next few months, enslaved people are buried in the deteriorating “ The one thing we know is that the population of Cedar Grove at 1800 was around 200 people, and that over 50 of them were enslaved Africans,” Vanderhoof said.
The research team includes Colonial mapmaking and archeology specialists, a genealogist and a geophysicist, with members affiliated with Montclair State University, Rutgers-Newark and Hofstra University.
“Who were these people, you know, what were their jobs? If they were enslaved, was there a newspaper article that would give us some hint, or glimpse of what their life was like?” she said. “And in most cases, when I've researched, no matter where, I always find something. And I believe that exists for Cedar Grove as well.”
Many headstones at the Doremus family cemetery in Cedar Grove, New Jersey have been toppled, and some are sunken into the ground.Gilyard said research that could help establish the final resting places of enslaved people, as well as free Black individuals of the 1700s and 1800s, is vital. There are no easily accessible databases or records for most cemeteries where slaves are likely to be buried, and descendants don’t have the resources or time to track down records, she said.
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