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Lecture: The Role of New Jersey Just Before the Civil War

Dr. William Gillette, Professor of History at Rutgers University, and author of "Jersey Blue: Civil War Politics in New Jersey 1854-1865," will offer a re-evaluation of New Jersey's antebellum position. The view that New Jerseyans supported slavery, states rights and the South is disputed. A new view of why most New Jerseyans did not actively support the abolitionist movement will be advanced.  The program is sponsored by the Cranford Historical Society's Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee and the Cranford Public Library and funded by the Horizons Speakers Bureau of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Partial funding for the program was secured by the Cranford Historical Society through a HEART Grant administered by Union County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs.

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