Talk:History of New Jersey

Wrong Photo: Caption reads Gubernatorres Jon Corzine, Picture is of a young black woman.
Towards the bottom of the article there is a picture of a young black woman. The caption indicates that the picture is of Jon Corzine. This is so obviously incorrect that it is likely a hoax or malicious edit.

History of slavery in New Jersey
I just started the above-titled article. Feel free to join in. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 03:32, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Named After Jersey Island
Shouldn't the Section on The Colonial History indicate where the name came from. Something called New Jersey, can't exist in a vacuum right? 71.233.230.223 (talk) 18:03, 9 March 2008 (UTC) hi luv u

Pre-Revolutionary War History (ie Lenape, New Nedtherland,etc)
I have made considerably changes to the above sections, but the Lenape portion is rather weak, and could use expansion.

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Date of Younger Dryas?
The article begins "The story of the area of present-day New Jersey begins at the end of the Younger Dryas, about 15,000 years ago", yet that article puts the end about 11,700 years ago. ?? --Haruo (talk) 23:18, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Plainfield and Newark are hardly "neighboring" cities.
"In the summer of 1967, urban residents, primarily African Americans, rioted for five days in Newark and the neighboring city of Plainfield." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.168.229.131 (talk) 01:22, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I would have to agree with that assessment... Stevenmitchell (talk) 19:25, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

When Did NJ Racially Desegregate?
NJ was apparently heavily segregated, as many of the cemeteries, if not all, were segregated until at least 1954. What is the history of segregation in New Jersey? I ask this because NJ was the most intensified slave state of all of the northern states in the U.S., and actually was the last state in the US to end slavery, including Texas. Can we include the history of African-American segregation in New Jersey? Another reason I ask this, is because it should be obvious to anyone who grew up in NJ or lives here now, that NJ was a heavily segregated state, based on current population patterns... Where's the history of this? Stevenmitchell (talk) 19:30, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Your statement about slavery is nonsense; Texas was a Confederate state where chattel slavery was actively practiced until the end of the civil war, including the trade in chattel slaves. New Jersey abolished the importation of slaves after the revolution in 1788 and abolished chattel slavery in 1804, such that any child born to a slave would gain their freedom at majority following apprenticeship during minority (so-called “gradual abolition”). The vast majority of the some 12,000 slaves in New Jersey gained their freedom. A few were illegally “sold down the river.” Only a tiny handful of old legacy slaves remained in New Jersey by the time of the civil war, when there were over 180,000 chattel slaves in Texas. These situations are not comparable. As for segregation, you can find that anywhere in the world where blacks and whites live in the same lands. If you think New Jersey is somehow unique in that respect then the burden is on you to demonstrate that. 66.217.225.222 (talk) 11:46, 14 July 2023 (UTC)