Oh please. That’s a bulsh!t arguement. New Jersey had exactly four blacks who were in ‘’indentured servitude’’. While not a a morally acceptable situation it can hardly be called slavery as it pertained to what it was in the South. My home state never had cotton plantations. You’re talking about The Stars And Stripes as being the flag of slavery sounds exactly what those idiot lefties say about the Confederate flag. The same then could be said for the Gadston Flag or The Bonnie Blue.
But the institution of slavery was still legal in New Jersey longer than it was in the South.
Seems to me if they thought it was so bad, they wouldn't have waited until they were forced to abolish it. Why didn't they abolish it in 1861? Wasn't that when the war started?
Four more years of Slavery in New Jersey makes you think they didn't really give a rat's @$$ about slavery as an issue.