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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.
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.
Moses Taylor Pyne and the Sugar Plantations of the Americas
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The financial contributions of Moses Taylor Pyne (Class of 1877), one of Princeton's most prominent benefactors, reveal the complex relationship between Princeton, the American sugar trade, and the slave economy.
Princeton Academies and Slavery
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Local academies in Princeton helped maintain the relationship between the College of New Jersey and the South.
John Anthony Simmons
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John Anthony Simmons (1802-1868) was a former slave, abolitionist, businessman, philanthropist, and prominent member of the Princeton community.
Primary Sources
Charles Ewing
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An 1834 engraving of Charles Ewing by E. Wellmore, based on a drawing by J.B. Longacre.
Will of Mehetabel Kollock
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The will of Mehetabel Kollock, wife of Professor Henry Kollock, transferring enslaved women Hannah and Molley to the American Colonization Society.