New Jersey As a Colony And As a State One of the Original Thirteen volume 3
New Jersey As a Colony And As a State One of the Original Thirteen volume 3
Francis Bazley Lee
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V ^, I- •* N DEDICATED TO JOEL PARKER AND CHARLES S. OLDEN IIIV iPl'. H. LNAl. LlIlUTKfN lOI. OMlK SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS CHAPTER I THE RISE AND FALL OF SLAVERY IN NEW JERSEY 23-48 Attitude of Continental Europe toward Slavery — A Question of a Commercial Character— Slavery Among the Dutch and Swedes — Lewis Morris and His Bondmen — The Institotion Established in New Jersey in 1675 — A Supreme Coui"t Opinion — The Instructions to Lord Cornbui'y — Early Acts regarding Slavery based upon an Economi...c View — Duties laid on Negroes Imported into East and West Jersey — The Beginnings of Ethical Con- siderations — John Woolmau and the Society of Friends — The Abolition Influence before the Revolution — A Rev- olutionary View of the Matter — The Declaration of the Legislature in 1786 concerning Importation of Africans — The General Slave Law of 1798 and its Purpose — The Gradual Abolition Act of 1804 — The Effort of Organized Societies — Legislation growing out of the Act of 1804 — The New Jersey Constitution of 1844 in its Relation to Slavery — The Liberty Party — The Policy of " Travelling " Friends — Colonial Censuses of Slaves — The Number of Bondmen in New Jersey in 1800 — The Rapid Decrease in Numbers — New Jersey occupies a Unique Position among the Northern " Free " States — The Government of Slaves before 1702 — Stringency of East Jersey Statutes — The Barrier between Whites and Blacks — The Supreme Court Records — Negro Plots — The Question of Manu- mission — Protection Offered the Slave — The Negroes and their Churches — The Social Position of the Slave.
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