The Scarlet and Black Project aims to shed light on the legacy of slavery and dispossession at Rutgers University.
This Digital Archive serves as a companion to our three books. Learn more about the project and our team.
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Explore our digital exhibits to learn about African American history at Rutgers, from slavery to black student activism in the twentieth century. Exhibit topics include campus buildings named after slaveholders, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in New Brunswick, and the New Brunswick NAACP's anti-lynching campaign in the 1920s.
Our digital collections also contain a wide range of primary sources about local black history, such as runaway slave ads, birth records of enslaved children in Middlesex County, manumission records, and the records of the Mount Zion AME Church of New Brunswick digitized as part of the Alice Jennings Archibald History Library collection.
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Account book, 1794-1809
Blauvelt, Abraham
1794/1809

Abraham Blauvelt used this account book to record the expenses of the Queen's College Building Committee from July 6, 1808, to March 30, 1810.…
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Sketch of the first site of the Mount Zion AME Church of New Brunswick
Marsh, Herbert
1972

Sketch of the first site of the Mount Zion AME Church of New Brunswick, which was said to resemble a little red schoolhouse. The sketch is by artist…
Alice Jennings Archibald Oral History Interview
Rutgers Oral History Archives
1997-03-14

Alice Jennings Archibald's oral history interview conducted on March 14, 1997, by G. Kurt Piehler and Eve Snyder in New Brunswick, NJ, for the Rutgers…
Featured Collection
Slavery Era Newspaper Clippings

This collection consists of New Jersey newspaper clippings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, including runaway ads, slave sale…
Featured Exhibit
Ku Klux Klan in New Brunswick

This exhibit traces the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in New Brunswick in the 1920s during what’s known as...