ABSTRACT
After the effective reinforcement of their long-standing general claim to the area by the English in the late 1600s, the European population began to increase. New Jersey, scene of many important revolutionary battles because it lay between the two most important cities in the colonies, was ravaged by war. The percentage increase in New Jersey's population, between censuses, almost doubled from 1840 to 1850 in comparison with the preceding series of census years. The 1920 census shows a highly concentrated urban population, little different in pattern than in 1890, but on the threshold of suburbanization. World War II was the beginning of a recovery, in terms of the economy and associated population growth. The cultural differences between East and West Jersey were quite important in the early distribution of blacks and in the attitudes of whites toward slavery. "Christian servants" usually referred as bonded servants. Thus the black population of New Jersey is distinctive among the states for several reasons.
