Lectures on Tap - March

Many people think slavery only existed in the American South and that all those in the British colonies during the Revolution were Patriots. Not so. New Jersey residents were bitterly divided during what became a nasty civil war. The third or more of probable Loyalists can be divided into those who were active picking up arms, irreconcilables opposed to Independence who became exiles, those who remained during the war, and then those who left and later returned. Their reasons had to do with location, political ideas, religion, family ties, experiences. Local examples will be given. Hopefully this will provide perspective for discussion about then and on our own divided times.

Please join NJSAA at Flounders Brewing as Maxine Lurie, a retired professor of history from Seton Hall University, speaks about the Loyalists in New Jersey.

You may also like the following events from New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance - NJSAA:

• Next month, 22nd February, 02:00 pm, Lectures on Tap - February in Hillsborough
• This April, 21st April, 07:00 pm, Lectures on Tap - April in Hillsborough