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Built in 1772 as a 14-room Georgian-style mansion by William Livingston, first governor of New Jersey (1776 - 90) and delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
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Built in 1772 as a 14-room Georgian-style mansion by William Livingston, first governor of New Jersey (1776 - 90) and delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
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By attacking slavery more fiercely than ever before, Revolutionary Americans freed tens of thousands of slaves. But the Revolution’s libertarian and egalitarian message had perverse consequences. It forced those Southerners who chose to retain slavery to fall back on the alleged racial deficiencies of blacks as a justification for an institution that hitherto they had taken for granted and had never before needed to justify. The anti-slavery movement that arose out of the Revolution inadvertently produced racism in America.