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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 |
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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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