New Jersey became a state in 1787. Slavery was abolished in New Jersey in 1846. And no, I never said Jersey wasn’t a state. So which Lee are the ghost of?
Bruce.
Better check your “facts” again. They abolished NEW slavery in 1804. On February 15, 1804, New Jersey became the last northern state to abolish new slavery and enacted legislation that slowly phased out existing slavery. This led to a gradual scale-down of the slave population. By the close of the Civil War about a dozen African Americans in New Jersey were still apprenticed freedmen. New Jersey voters initially refused to ratify the constitutional amendments banning slavery and granting rights to the United States’ black population.