Irish Indentured Servitude

March is Irish-American Heritage Month!

Join us at the Woodbridge Public Library March 18 at 7PM as the Director of Collections at the Monmouth County Historical Association, Bernadette Rogoff, explores the history of one of the state's little-known labor sources: imported men, women and children from Ireland who signed on to work as indentured servants. It's thought that over 3,000 immigrants worked in the state of New Jersey from the early years of European settlement until the 1840s. Although indentured servants were English, Scottish, German, and Dutch, the majority of those working as indentured servants were the Irish. The talk includes first-person accounts by 18th century indentured servants as well as a look at information gleaned from period newspaper advertisements.

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