29Results for "1817"
Stories
Endowed Professorships
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Of Princeton's more than 160 endowed professorships and lectureships, four honor men who derived their fortunes from slave labor or contributed to the legacy of slavery in New Jersey and the United States.
Princeton and Mississippi
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Princeton students and their families lived in the Mississippi area decades before statehood in 1817. From the 1790s to the Civil War, Mississippians at the College of New Jersey came from elite families who built their wealth on cotton and slave labor.
Henry Kollock
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Henry Kollock (1778-1819) was a Princeton professor, pastor, and slave owner. He appeared in the first fugitive slave narrative: Life of William Grimes, a Runaway Slave.
Princeton and the New Jersey Colonization Society
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More than half of the officers and founding members of the New Jersey Colonization Society were Princeton affiliates.
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.
Primary Sources
Abraham Sherrit
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Runaway advertisement placed by trustee Robert Lenox for the return of his slave Abraham Sherrit.
"A serious rebellion"
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A response to the 1817 riots at the College of New Jersey, printed in a Connecticut paper.
"A very serious rebellion"
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A response to the 1817 riots printed in a Lexington, KY newspaper.
"Rebellion at Princeton"
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A letter from Princeton detailing the 1817 riots, published in an Alexandria newspaper.
Letter from Ashbel Green
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A letter in Ashbel Green's name rebutting the stories of the riots at Princeton.