Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New Jersey” in entry abolition of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

...setts, including Maine, in 1780, and by New Hampshire in 1783. Gradual abolition was secured by statute in Pennsylvania in 1780, in Rhode Island and Connecticut in 1784, in New York in 1799, and in New Jersey in 1804. Abolition of slavery in the Northwest Territory, north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, including the present States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Mi...
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New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) 4,568 1,388 0 0 0 user votes

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