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Author Holly Metz shows how Stevens’ slave history is not black and white

Members of the Hoboken community gathered in Babbio 118 this past Wednesday to hear from author and longtime Hoboken resident Holly Metz on her ongoing findings regarding “the Stevens family’s history of involvement in the slave trade and the life history of Peter Lee, who began his life as ‘the property of Colonel John Stevens.’”