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X-WR-CALNAME:Lecture - The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man:  Jacob 
 Francis 1754-1836
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DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be held in-person in the Visitor Center Audit
 orium unless COVID or weather restrictions necessitate a change to a virtu
 al format.  If the program is held virtually\, registrants will be notifie
 d and sent a Zoom link.    REGISTRATION IS REQUIRERD.\n\nWilliam L. Kidder
  will discuss his new book The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man:  J
 acob Francis 1754-1836 .\n\nBorn in Amwell Township to a free Black mother
 \, Jacob Francis lived his 82-year life in a world of revolutionary change
 . He became caught up in the rising tide of revolution in the 1760s and 70
 s and served fourteen months in the 16th Continental Army regiment\, inclu
 ding at the Battle of Trenton\, and then in the Third Hunterdon County mil
 itia regiment for over six years. Establishing himself as a farmer\, he ma
 rried an enslaved woman named Mary\, freed her and together they raised th
 eir nine children in the vicinity of Flemington during a period of rising 
 interest in abolition. The story of Jacob Francis and his family provides 
 an inside view of life in New Jersey in the late eighteenth and early nine
 teenth centuries and the revolutionary changes affecting the lives of both
  free and enslaved Black people.
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LOCATION:Washington Crossing Historic Park
SUMMARY:Lecture - The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man:  Jacob Franc
 is 1754-1836
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 world_of_a_free_black_man_jacob_francis_1754-1836
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