New Jersey Slavery Records

Director:

Jesse Bayker, Assistant Teaching Professor of History and Associate Director of the Digital Studies Center at Rutgers University–Camden

Affiliated Scholar:

Kendra Boyd, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University–Camden

Contributors:

Each record in the database lists one or more Record Contributors, acknowledging the work of the individual or team who transcribed and indexed the sources. Named contributors include our own team members at Rutgers as well as other collaborators and projects who have submitted data and images. You can Browse Records by Contributor to see a complete list of contributors.

Research Assistants at Rutgers–Camden:

Kelsey Heflin, Graduate Research Assistant at the Digital Studies Center, 2025–2026

Stephanie Lang, Graduate Reserach Assistant for the Burlington Slavery and Freedom Project, Summer 2026

Kemy Rodriguez, Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Digital Studies Center, 2025–2026

Past Affiliates at Rutgers–New Brunswick:

From 2022 to 2024, undergraduate and graduate research assistants at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University–New Brunswick contributed records to the database and assisted with archival digitization.

Undergraduate research assistants at Rutgers–New Brunswick:

• Saketh Mandayam
• Daniel Dias
• Kate Jackson
• Xandria McKinley

Graduate research assistants at Rutgers–New Brunswick:

• Lindsey Dixon
• Isaac Guzmán
• Bea Pearson
• Adam McNeil

Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, supported our collaborative DH work with On These Grounds during the formative stage of development of the New Jersey Slavery Records database.