Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Debating Abolition in an Age of Revolution -- Chapter 2. Sustaining Slavery in an Age of Freedom -- Chapter 3. Abolishing Slavery in the New Nation -- Chapter 4. Not Quite Free -- Chapter 5. Slavery, Freedom, and Citizenship in the New Republic -- Chapter 6. Slavery in Motion -- Chapter 7. Colonization and Gradualism's Persistence -- Chapter 8. Creating a Free Life -- Chapter 9. Debating Slavery's End -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
James J. Gigantino II shatters the easy dichotomy between free and slave states in early America. The Ragged Road to Abolition illustrates how slavery in New Jersey persisted until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and reveals the myriad ways this marginalized the state's free blacks
