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Princeton & Slavery Project Launches Website

The project is a remarkable research effort and work of public history that stands to reshape the thinking of both University affiliates and Princeton area residents. Among its many discoveries, the project has revealed that the first nine presidents of the University were at one point in their lives slave owners (though the researchers have not found evidence that the University as an institution ever owned slaves).

Read more at Princeton Magazine.

Did You Know...?Princeton professors owned enslaved people as late as 1840. Read More