Presentations and Videos
Preserving and Protecting Timbuctoo
February 25, 2025 Provides an overview of the community, resources to learn about it and strategies to protect it.. Also used at South Brunswick Library on Fenruary 15, 2025
Timbuctoo the UGRR, and Antebellum Black Churches
October 10, 2024 . From a panel discussion on the Underground Railroad in Southern New Jersey
Finding My Roots by Digging in the Ground
September 22, 2024. Based on an article by the same name in AAHGS Journal, Summer 2024 edition. Discusses archaeological projects in Timbuctoo cemetery and my ancestral home.
Timbuctoo and the First Emancipation of the Early Twentieth Century
Black History Makers in Burlington County: Revolutionary War to the Civil War
February 9, 2022. Detailed discussion of the development of this free Black community decades before the Civil War.
Black History Makers in Burlington County: Revolutionary War to the Civil War
Black History Makers in Burlington County: Revolutionary War to the Civil War
Black History Makers in Burlington County: Revolutionary War to the Civil War
March 25, 2023. Based on an article by the same name in AAHGS Journal, Volume 41.
How I discovered Timbuctoo, NJ
September 18, 2021. This presentation is a condensed version of the story of how I discovered Timbuctoo using 19th century legal documents and why this heritage is an important part of our history.
Timbuctoo in the News, circa 1800s
February 24, 2021. Learn fascinating details about Timbuctoo as they were written during its heyday.
Timbuctoo: Where did it come from and where is it now?
May 23, 2015. This was the first Timbuctoo Day of the new Timbuctoo Advisory Committee. Please see the description under the video screen for important points of clarification.
African American Family Histories
July 23, 2019. Slides from a presentation focusing on antebellum free People of Color in New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Also included is discussion on the basics of building a Family Tree.