Um, if I remember from my history courses, NJ wasn’t a slave state.
Don’t let history get in the way of a good progressive whine fest
However New Jersey had slaves since it was a dutch colony and abolished Slavery in 1804 and slaves were held until 1865
Reparations are stupid, nobody today was a slave and nobody today was a slave owner.
Um, if I remember from my history courses, NJ wasn’t a slave state.
New Jersey had slaves - they abolished the practice in 1804... but the process of emancipation was gradual, not too unlike New York. There was a process of indentured servitude for the children of slave mothers. The last slaves were freed in 1865 with the passage of the 13th amendment.
While it was north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery wasn’t uncommon in New Jersey. From my middle school history classes, they mentioned big slave and ex-slave communities in and near New Brunswick and Paramus.
All of this does nothing for the idea of reparations, though... as none of those slaves are still alive.
How many black residents of New Jersey are descents of the few NJ slaves?
Not sure...
LOL
“Um, if I remember from my history courses, NJ wasn’t a slave state.”
When free money is at stake for certain people, you would be amazed how its historical status can change.
NJ was one of the last northern states to outlaw slavery. When our dopey dipsh!t governor removed Mississippi’s flag from Liberty State Park (by the Statue of Liberty) because it featured a Confederate flag on it, he ignored the fact that our current flag is the same one that flew over NJ as a slave state.
All of the colonies had slavery, and most of the newly freed colonies kept it.