24Results for "1783"
Stories
A Moment in Nassau Hall
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In 1783, four somberly dressed men rode into town to petition Congress: End slavery.
Princeton and South Carolina
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Princeton alumni from South Carolina owned successful plantations, large numbers of slaves, and served as leaders in the Confederate cause during the Civil War.
Princeton in the Newspapers
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News about the College of New Jersey and its students—including their connections to the South—spread across the country through multiple forms of print media.
Princeton in the West Indies
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Under the leadership of President Witherspoon, the College of New Jersey launched an ill-fated campaign to secure donations from slaveholding planter elites in the West Indies.
Ashbel Green
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Although Princeton president Ashbel Green condemned slavery on moral grounds, his religious convictions did not keep him from owning or hiring enslaved people himself—including at least three who lived and worked in his house on campus.
Primary Sources
Letter from Sarah Gibbes to John Gibbes
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A letter from Sarah Gibbes to her son John Gibbes (Class of 1784) in which she encourages him to maintain ties to the Boudinots and Stocktons, wealthy New Jersey families.
"To be sold cheap for Cash"
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Newspaper advertisement for the sale of an enslaved woman.
Ashbel Green
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A portrait of Ashbel Green (Class of 1783), who served as the university's 8th president from 1812-1822.
Prime's Petition for Freedom
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Petition submitted to the New Jersey state legislature for Prime's manumission.