New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . emption-er was brief and uncertain, and, moved by selfishimpulses, cruelly overworked their bondmen. Asa result the redemptioner often performed moredegrading labor than the slave, and was treatedwith greater severity. Under such circumstancesescapes were frequent, the advertisements in thenewspapers described with great particularitythe personal appearance and dress of the , usually proportioned to the length ofyears the redemptioner had to serve, were offered,and from time to time notices appeared in thepu
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . emption-er was brief and uncertain, and, moved by selfishimpulses, cruelly overworked their bondmen. Asa result the redemptioner often performed moredegrading labor than the slave, and was treatedwith greater severity. Under such circumstancesescapes were frequent, the advertisements in thenewspapers described with great particularitythe personal appearance and dress of the , usually proportioned to the length ofyears the redemptioner had to serve, were offered,and from time to time notices appeared in thepublic prints advising those interested that re-demptioners had been taken up and were heldin the common jails awaiting proper proofs ofownership. In the mutations of fortune the positions of mas-ter and redemptioner were occasionally completing his time a redemptioner wouldobtain possession of land, and, by successfulventures, become a proprietor. His sons wouldmarry the daughters of his former master, andfamilies in the State trace their genealogies to. HORi»KHH«Kt 202 NEW JERSEY AS A COL
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