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Title The American Revolution in New Jersey : where the battlefront meets the home front / edited by James J. Gigantino II
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Rivergate regionals
Contents Part I.A revolutionary experience -- A disproportionate burden on the willing / William L. Kidder -- "Most boundless avarice": illegal trade in revolutionary Essex / Gregory F. Walsh -- Blasting, scraping, and scavenging: iron and salt production in revolutionary New Jersey / Eleanor H. McConnell -- A nest of tories: the American versus American Battle of Fort Lee, 1781 / Todd W. Braisted -- Rochambeau in New Jersey: the good French ally / Robert A. Selig -- Part II. The impact of the revolutionary experience -- Destitute of almost everything to support life: the acquisition and loss of wealth in revolutionary Monmouth County, New Jersey / Michael S. Adelberg -- Discharging their duty: Salem Quakers and slavery, 1730-1780 / Bruce A. Bendler -- Slavery, abolition, and African Americans in New Jersey's American Revolution / James J. Gigantino II -- A loyalist homestead in a world turned upside down / Donald Sherblom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
SUBJECT New Jersey -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091331
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140139
Subject New Jersey
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Gigantino, James J., II, 1983- editor, author.
ISBN 9780813571935
0813571936
9780813572734
0813572738