Friday, January 4, 2008
From CNN News
The symbolic atonement, if approved, would follow apologies for human bondage made last year by legislators in Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia.
New Jersey was the last northern state to abolish slavery, in 1846. It could become the first northern state to apologize if the state's General Assembly adopts a resolution championed by Assemblyman William Payne.
New Jersey, with as many as 12,000 slaves, had one of the largest populations of captive Africans in the northern colonies,"
Payne's resolution reads.http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/ACR/270_I1.PDF
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