385Results for "1820"
Stories
Slavery and the 1820 Trustees
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As the institution of slavery slowly declined in 18th and 19th-century New Jersey, the Trustees of 1820 reflected the changing face of pro- and antislavery thought in the state—variously owning slaves, supporting gradual emancipation or African colonization, and advocating for immediate abolition.
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 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.
Cezar Trent
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Cezar Trent, one of the elite free Black citizens of antebellum Princeton, was the employee of a prominent landowner, the object of a town resident's published recollections, and a slave owner himself.
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.
Primary Sources
1820 Census Entry for James Carnahan
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1820 census entry for Princeton president James Carnahan, who owned two slaves while living in Georgetown, Washington D.C.
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Portrait
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A portrait of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (class of 1820, non-graduate), a student from Kentucky who was a strong advocate for African colonization.
Charles F. Mercer
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Portrait of Charles F. Mercer (class of 1797), a founder of the American Colonization Society.
Mariano Rolando to Moses Taylor & Co.
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A letter that reveals the close relationship between the firm of Moses Taylor and its suppliers in Cuba.
F.G. Rolando to Moses Taylor & Co.
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A letter from F.G. Rolando, a Cuban supplier, to the firm of Moses Taylor & Co.