[PDF.44ah] The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865

The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865

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 | #1112624 in Books |  2016-01-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.82 x5.98l,.0 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Good For Black History Month|By revbill|Fascinating and enlighteniing. Perfect for the month of February. Not an easy read. It's a sholarly approach by a man who is a history professor.|1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Joseph G. Bilby|Excellent and long needed close examination of slavery in Ne| ||"This magisterial volume sets the standard for examining slavery in New Jersey politics, economy, and society. More broadly, Gigantino deepens understanding of the state's role in sustaining the North's ambivalent stance on the peculiar institution."—

Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth century. This was especially the case in New Jersey, the last northern state to pass an abolition statute, in 1804. Because of the nature of the law, which freed children born to enslaved mothers only after they had served their mother's master for more than two decades, slavery continued in New Jersey through the Civil War. Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 finally destr...

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