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1804

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New Jersey's Gradual Abolition and Persistent Bondage

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New Jersey's Gradual Abolition and Persistent Bondage
New Jersey's Gradual Abolition and Persistent Bondage

New Jersey's 1804 gradual abolition law left many Black people in long-term apprenticeships; the state was among the last in the North to fully end slavery, revealing Northern complicity in bondage.

African American Slavery & emancipation

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