Laws of New Jersey respecting Negroes and Mulatto slaves from 1682 to 1788 / compiled by Joseph Bloomfield for the New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 1795.
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Bloomfield, Joseph, 1753-1823
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Bloomfield was a lawyer and a soldier in New Jersey. He was educated at the Rev. Enoch Green's Academy. He served as Mayor of Bloomfield (1795-1800), clerk of the state assembly, register of the court of admiralty, and attorney general of New Jersey. In 1801 he was elected governor of the New Jersey legislature over Richard Stockton; re-elected in1804, he served till 1812. As governor, he signed the gradual emancipation act in 1804, which reduced the slave population in New Jersey from six perce...
New-Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
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