The Day Slavery Finally Ended in New Jersey, the Last Slave State

January 23, 1866, not “Juneteenth.”  (About 90,000 New Jersey men participated in the U.S. government’s invasion of the Southern states with some 6,300 being killed and several times that number being wounded.  Some were conscripted after Lincoln’s conscription law was imposed in January of 1863.  One wonders what they thought they were fighting for).

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7:27 am on June 22, 2021