Did New Jersey fight for the Confederacy in the CW?

by SamCogar Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:40 am

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey became the first Northern state to apologize for slavery, as legislators approved a resolution Monday expressing "profound regret" for the state's role in the practice.

The Assembly and the Senate 29-2 both voted overwhelmingly to approve the resolution, which expresses the Legislature's opinion without requiring action by the governor.

"This resolution does nothing more than say New Jersey is sorry about its shameful past," said Assemblyman William Payne, a Democrat who sponsored the measure.

The resolution offers an apology "for the wrongs inflicted by slavery and its aftereffects in the United States of America."

According to the resolution, New Jersey had one of the largest slave populations in the Northern colonies and was the last state in the Northeast to formally abolish slavery, not doing so until 1846.

The state didn't ratify the constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery until January 1866, a month after it had already become federal law.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,320912,00.html

HUUUMMMM, so the American Civil War (1861–1865) had done been fought and won by the North ........ before there was even a federal law that prohibited slavery.

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