Nicholas Van Wickle (1796-1865)
Item
- Person
- Nicholas Van Wickle (1796-1865)
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-00072
- Given Name
- Nicholas
- Family Name
- Van Wickle
- Alternate Name
- Nicholas Van Wikle
- Birth Date
- 1796
- Death Date
- 1865
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
- Nicholas Van Wickle was the son of Judge Jacob Van Wickle, and was involved in his father's notorious slave trading ring in Middlesex County, New Jersey. In 1818, Nicholas Van Wickle helped his father and his uncle Charles Morgan buy up groups of enslaved people in New Jersey and then falsify legal documents to facilitate the shipment of these enslaved people to the Deep South where they could be sold for a huge profit.
- Related Person or Resource
- Charles Morgan (1775-1848)
- New Jersey Slavery Records > Understanding removal certificates and slave trading
- Lost Souls Memorial Project website
- Bibliographic Citation
- Gigantino, James J., II. "Trading in Jersey Souls: New Jersey and the Interstate Slave Trade." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 77, no. 3 (2010): 281–302.
- Drake, Jarrett. "Off the Record: The Production of Evidence in 19th Century New Jersey." New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1, no. 1 (2015): 104–25.
- Pingeon, Frances D. “An Abominable Business: The New Jersey Slave Trade, 1818.” New Jersey History 109, no. 3 (1991): 15–35.
- Keywords
- Van Wickle and associates
Linked resources
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| Charles Morgan (1775-1848) | Agent |
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| Dorcas (b. 1817) | Agent |
| Dorcus (b. 1802) | Agent |
| Elizer (b. 1799) | Agent |
| Elminah (b. 1804) | Agent |
| Florah (b. 1795) | Agent |
| Frank (b. 1797) | Agent |
| George (b. 1800) | Agent |
| George (b. 1802) | Agent |
| Hager (b. 1789) | Agent |
| Hannah (b. 1802) | Agent |
| Hannah (b. 1804) | Agent |
| Harey (b. 1796) | Agent |
| Harrey (b. 1804) | Agent |
| Henry (b. 1797) | Agent |