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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
ritory as actual settlers, this permission not to extend to negroes introduced into the United States since 1798. The object of this provision was to guard against the effects of an act recently adopted by the legislature of South Carolina for reviving the slave-trade after a cessation of it, as to that State, for fifteen years, and of six years as to the whole Union. This was a consequence of the vast increase and profitableness of cotton culture, made so by Whitney's cottongin. On Feb. 15, 1804, the legislature of New Jersey, by an almost unanimous vote, passed an act to abolish slavery in that State by securing freedom to all persons born there after July 4 next ensuing, the children of slave parents to become free, masculine at twenty-five years of age, feminine at twenty-one. The rapid extension of settlements in the Southwest after the War of 1812-15, and the great profits derived there from the cultivation of cotton, not only caused the revival of the African slave-tr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
ry at Paterson built, and calico goods printed, the first in New Jersey......1794 Inter-State traffic in slaves forbidden by the legislature......March 14, 1798 Women vote at the Elizabethtown municipal election......1800 [The constitution of 1776 permitted women to vote.] Morris turnpike, from Elizabethtown to the Delaware River, chartered......March 1, 1801 Act for the gradual abolition of slavery, making free all persons born in the State after July 4, 1804, passed......Feb. 15, 1804 Newark bank and insurance company chartered......1804 Act confining suffrage to white male citizens......Nov. 16, 1807 Princeton Theological Seminary established by the Presbyterian Church......1812 Act passed creating a fund for free schools......Feb. 12, 1817 Jersey City incorporated......Jan. 28, 1820 Samuel L. Southard, of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy......Sept. 16, 1823 Morris Canal, from Newark to Phillipsburg, on the Delaware, commenced......1825 Camde