New York lagged until 1799, and then provided freedom for the after-born only at twenty-eight and twenty-five years for males and females respectively; but a further act of 1817 set the Fourth of July in 1827 as a time for the emancipation for all remaining slaves in the state.

New Jersey fell into line last of all by an act of 1804 giving freedom to the after-born at the ages of twenty-five for males and twenty-one for females; and in 1846 she converted the surviving slaves nominally into apprentices but without materially changing their condition.

Supplementary legislation here and there in these states bestowed freedom upon slaves in military service, restrained the import and export of slaves, and forbade the citizens to ply the slave trade by land or sea.[11] [Footnote 11: E.R.Turner, _The Negro in Pennsylvania_, pp.

77-85; B.C.
Steiner, _Slavery in Connecticut_, pp.

30-32; _Rhode Island Colonial Records_, X, 132, 133; A.J.Northrup, "Slavery in New York," in the New York State Library _Report_ for 1900, pp.