[DoodleDawg]

New Jersey had blacks who were freed only by the ratification of the 13th Amendment in Dec, 1865.

New Jersey didn't join in a war launched to protect the institution of slavery.

[Ready4Freddy]

“New Jersey didn’t join in a war launched to protect the institution of slavery.”

Was there such a war? If so, it is one with which I am not familiar.

Abolition was certainly on the minds of some yankees, but those in Washington were more concerned with preservation of the Union, as well as keeping those tariffs rolling in.