The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-06-13
THE STORY OF THE SLAVE.

Slavery and servitude in New Jersey.
BY alfred M. Heston. Member of the
New Jersey, Historical, Society. Camden.
This monograph is a recital OF slavery
and servitude as it existed in New Jer-s
sey. The fact is brought out that slay-
cry existed in America long before 1919,
when the Dutch traders came with their
cargo: of human freight to Jamestown.
The Aztecs in Mexico enslaved not only
enemies taken in battle but those or their
own nation who were. convicted of theft
and other crimes. African slavery was
introduced in New Jersey in 16so-at least
ownership of African slaves Many of
the leading citizens engaged in the Afri-
can slave trade. There is record of one
zcan o coast aWays t9rned out on we
who returned thanks on the Sunday fol-
lowing the arrival of SLAYER into the
Providence has been pleased to bring to
this land of freedom another cargo Of
benighted heather to enjoy the blessings
Of gospel dispensation."
port OF entry, and blacks were to be seen
there in goodly numbers. many of them
freshly imported and still bearing their
tribal marks. Adults sold, from 5000 to
$500. The system of white, bondage;
known as redemptive .servitude, existed
throughout the Seventeenth and eigh-
was usually voluntary, and at the expira-
ton of the term the redemptioners were
merged into the mass of white population
peG nto the Colony Of Negro
slaves, who were found to be cheaper
than white servants, checked in a meas
ure the trade in redemptioners.
Many white convicts were shipped to
New Jersey from the British Islands, and
were merged into the mass of the popu
lation: An act providing for the gradual
New Jersey legislature in 1904. A fur
Their act in 1920 and still later another
in 1916, did not bring about the complete
tere were but Is in the entire state when
1850, Hon. Garret A. Hobart, at that time
! a member of the state senate, introduced
anG lad passed a bill which removed
! from the statutes the last vestige of slav-
! cry in New Jersey.
| information.
SALLY w1sTER's JOURNAL.
Sally Wister's Journal. A true nara
tive, being Quaker maidens account
Of her experiences with officers of the
Albert Cook Myers. with reproductions
Of port1sts manuscrgts' FG1cS and
Sally Wister's Journal is the record
| kept by Quaker girl of 16 during win
ter famous in the history Of this country.
The greater part or the book has to do
with the sayings and doings of American
soldiers visiting or CHARTERED at the farm
and her friend Lyddy and to her regret
when certain of them go upon missions
| of peril. Her teeth rattled'' and her
| hand shook like an aspen lear when
she first saw these soldiers, but she soon
cvercomes the feeling thus expressed and
| says to her Philadelphia friend: MY adj
vice is summon up all your resolution,
| call fortitude to your aid, and don't suf-
fer your spirits to SINK my dear; there $
nothing like courage; lis what stand
| in need of myself" f,aNy soon discov-
| cred that soldiers arr BIT human. Thew
| are, she says, Every peaceable sort of
men; they eat like other folks,
| talk like them and behave with elegance
] One lis the most amiable of men; tall
| and genteel," whom the following lines
! will most fully characterized
| " HOW skilled he is in each Ohliging