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Yes, when the 13th Amendment was ratified Your point?

You stated "Slavery ended in NJ in 1809." My point is that January 23, 1866 did not occur in 1809. The date of January 23, 1866 is linked and quoted from the official New Jersey state website.

What was your point in claiming slavery ended in New Jersey in 1809 when it didn't? 13A was ratified without New Jersey.

https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/legislating-slavery-in-new-jersey

Comprised of three short sections, the 1804 law declared children born to enslaved women after July 4, 1804 to be “free,” but required that they “shall remain the servant of the owner of his or her mother . . . and shall continue in such service, if a male, until the age of twenty-five years, and if a female until the age of twenty-one years.” The law effectively invalidated partus sequitur ventrem, or the rule that a child’s enslaved status followed their mother’s; the act itself, however, did not actually emancipate any slave. The law was first and foremost meant to protect the property rights of slaveholders, allowing them to continue to exploit the labor of any children enslaved women produced. The extended “apprenticeships” these children served differed little, if at all, from slavery and one historian has described them as “slaves for a term” rather than apprentices.
The gradual abolition act also contributed to the growth of the interstate slave trade, as slave-owners sold their human property down south in order to either covertly keep their property or profit off the institution before it ended in New Jersey.
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It was not until April 18, 1846 that the state legislature passed “An Act to Abolish Slavery,” declaring:
That slavery in this state be and it is hereby abolished, and every person who is now holden in slavery by the laws thereof is made free, subject, however, to the restrictions herein after mentioned and imposed.
This act, like the Gradual Abolition Act of 1804, did not actually emancipate enslaved people in the state. It instead turned the remaining enslaved peoples into “apprentices for life.” Thus, "New Jersey retained slaveholding without technically remaining a slave state."

The New Jersey farce about eliminating slavery was like the Illinois farce. Illinois abolished slavery but instituted 99-year indentured servitude.