Battles were fought in many colonies during the American
Revolution, but New Jersey was home to more sustained and intense
fighting over a longer period of time. The nine essays in The
American Revolution in New Jersey, depict the many challenges New
Jersey residents faced at the intersection of the front lines and
the home front. Unlike other colonies, New Jersey had significant
economic power in part because of its location between the major
ports of New York and Philadelphia. New people and new ideas
arriving in the colony fostered tensions between Loyalists and
Patriots that were at the core of the Revolution. Enlightenment
thinking shaped the minds of New Jersey's settlers as they began to
question the meaning of freedom in the colony. Yeoman farmers
demanded ownership of the land they worked on and members of the
growing Quaker denomination decried the evils of slavery and
spearheaded the abolitionist movement in the state. When larger
portions of New Jersey were occupied by British forces early in the
war, the unity of the state was crippled, pitting neighbor against
neighbor for seven years. The essays in this collection identify
and explore the interconnections between the events on the
battlefield and the daily lives of ordinary colonists during the
Revolution. Using a wide historical lens, the contributors to The
American Revolution in New Jersey capture the decades before and
after the conflict as they interpret the causes of the war and the
consequences of New Jersey's reaction to the Revolution.
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