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The Ragged Road to Abolition - Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865 (Paperback)
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The Ragged Road to Abolition - Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865 (Paperback)
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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 destroyed its last vestiges. The Ragged Road to Abolition
chronicles the experiences of slaves and free blacks, as well as
abolitionists and slaveholders, during slavery's slow northern
death. Abolition in New Jersey during the American Revolution was a
contested battle, in which constant economic devastation and fears
of freed blacks overrunning the state government limited their
ability to gain freedom. New Jersey's gradual abolition law kept at
least a quarter of the state's black population in some degree of
bondage until the 1830s. The sustained presence of slavery limited
African American community formation and forced Jersey blacks to
structure their households around multiple gradations of freedom
while allowing New Jersey slaveholders to participate in the
interstate slave trade until the 1850s. Slavery's persistence
dulled white understanding of the meaning of black freedom and
helped whites to associate "black" with "slave," enabling the
further marginalization of New Jersey's growing free black
population. By demonstrating how deeply slavery influenced the
political, economic, and social life of blacks and whites in New
Jersey, this illuminating study shatters the perceived easy
dichotomies between North and South or free states and slave states
at the onset of the Civil War.
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