The Ragged Road to Abolition : : Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865 / / James J. Gigantino II.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Debating Abolition in an Age of Revolution
- Chapter 2. Sustaining Slavery in an Age of Freedom
- Chapter 3. Abolishing Slavery in the New Nation
- Chapter 4. Not Quite Free
- Chapter 5. Slavery, Freedom, and Citizenship in the New Republic
- Chapter 6. Slavery in Motion
- Chapter 7. Colonization and Gradualism's Persistence
- Chapter 8. Creating a Free Life
- Chapter 9. Debating Slavery's End
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments