Part of The Newark Museum of Art's Community Day: Juneteenth. Experience the city of Newark from a totally different view as we explore Newark's rich history. New Jersey was the last state to abolish slavery. By the end of the Civil War, there were more than 15 people living as “slaves for life.” Here on the land of the Newark Museum of Art, Noelle Lorraine Williams will tell two interrelated stories connected to Black freedom. The first one is about Governor Marcus Ward, whose house and carriage house sit on the grounds where the Newark Museum is today. The second story talks about the African American Billings family who lived in Wards’s carriage house for several decades.