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Slaves and indentured slaves moved to New York and New Jersey, and trade expanded the population.
Slaves and indentured slaves moved to New York and New Jersey, and trade expanded the population.
New Jersey had slaves in some form through 1865. The passage of the 13th Amendment freed the last slaves in NJ.
New Jersey
New Jersey was first settled by the Dutch, then the Swedes and then the English.
New Jersey did have slavery and when the English took control in 1664 slaves were imported from the West Indies and Afrcia. Some Native Americans were also made slaves. Durning the American Revoultion the British offered freedom to any slaves who would fight for them and as many as 10,000 escaped slaves went to Manhatton. After the war they slaves who fought for them and remained loyal were given passage to Nova Scotia, the West Indies, and England. It wasn't until 1804 that slavery was outlawed.
Trade led to the diverse populations in New York and New Jersey because slaves started to come in and they traded slaves. This is what it said in the textbook so yeah...
New Jersey
It was the South that accepted slavery as their culture, but importing slaves came through different areas of the States. New Jersey was against slavery! There were indeed slaves in NJ.
New Jersey was named for the small Channel island of Jersey.
While all colonies had some sort of agriculture, the plantations colonies were found in the south. The northern states, of which New Jersey is one, very quickly found their economic base in industry - factories.
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