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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: NJ Law Calls For "Gradual Emancipation Of Slaves" (1804)
Description: It’s February 18th. This day in 1804, the Northern state of New Jersey passed a law that included a call for a “gradual emancipation of slaves.”
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss how the laws around abolition and the reality on the ground often differed considerably — but how in cases like this, you also had the law codifying the slow transition away from slavery.
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