Sunday, July 14 – Monmouth County Author Rick Geffken will present his program on Slavery and the Quaker Abolition Movement in Monmouth County to the Monmouth County Genealogical Society and interested visitors on July 14th @2pm. Program takes place at Eatontown Community Center, 68 Broad Street, Eatontown, NJ. This presentation is an overview of the history and legacy of New Jersey’s two-hundred-year embrace of human bondage. New Jersey, sadly, was the last northern state to outlaw slavery (1866). Images and stories of the enslaved, slave owners, and the local Quaker Abolition movement are examined and illuminated by the influential early activities at the Shrewsbury Meeting, the Manasquan Meeting, and other Quaker Meetings in West Jersey. At the famed Four Corners in the Borough of Shrewsbury - where today’s Route 35 intersects Sycamore Avenue – the occupants of the...
