Two women have dedicated their time to shedding light on some ugly parts of New Jersey history. It began when Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills had questions about their own African American lineage. What they found was New Jersey’s brutal legacy of slave owners and labor in a state once known as the “slave state of the north.” Buck and Mills co-founded the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum and have written a book in their quest to unearth the history.
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