[jmacusa #53] "Slavery ended in NJ in 1809."[woodpusher #95] "Despite the 13th Amendment, New Jersey stubbornly resisted abolition until January 1866."
[jmacusa #96] "It ended none the less, resistance or not. NJ contributed to fighting to preserve the Union and ending slavery."
Everybody knows slavery ended. You said it ended in New Jersey in 1809. The New Jersey government official website says it ended in 1866. You seem to be experiencing extreme difficulty in acknowledging your claim missed by 57 years.
In its alleged continued fight to end slavery, New Jersey refused to ratify the 13th Amendment until after it had already been certified into law without the vote of the recalcitrant state of New Jersey. New Jersey acknowledges itself as being the last of the states to have slavery.
https://nj.gov/state/historical/his-2021-juneteenth.shtml
New Jersey, The Last Northern State to End Slavery
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Slavery’s final legal death in New Jersey occurred on January 23, 1866, when in his first official act as governor, Marcus L. Ward of Newark signed a state Constitutional Amendment that brought about an absolute end to slavery in the state. In other words, the institution of slavery in New Jersey survived for months following the declaration of freedom in Texas.To understand this historical development, one needs to take a step back to 1804 when New Jersey passed its Gradual Abolition of Slavery law—an act that delayed the end of slavery in the state for decades. It allowed for the children of enslaved Blacks born after July 4, 1804 to be free, only after they attained the age of 21 years for women and 25 for men. Their family and everyone else near and dear to them, however, remained enslaved until they died or attained freedom by running away or waiting to be freed.