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Endowed Professorships
by Ryan Dukeman | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
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.
Commencement Orations
by Teal Arcadi and Julia Grummitt | Antebellum (1820-1861)
As tensions over slavery led to sectional crisis in the first half of the 19th century, Princeton’s commencement addresses became increasingly pro-slavery in tone.
Princeton and the Colonization Movement
by Craig Hollander | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820), Antebellum (1820-1861)
Founded and supported by 19th-century Princeton alumni, the American Colonization Society promoted the repatriation of freed slaves to a colony in Africa. Ultimately, however, colonization was more of an intellectual movement for moderately antislavery whites than a practical option for free Black people.
“Let the Southerns Come Here”: Letters of a Slaveholding Father and Son
by Paris Amanda Spies-Gans | Antebellum (1820-1861)
The extensive correspondence between antebellum Princeton student Henry Kirke White Muse and his slave-owning father illustrates the College of New Jersey’s appeal to southern students as well as its conservatism on the issue of slavery.
Legislating Slavery in New Jersey
by Geneva Smith | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820), Antebellum (1820-1861)
The development of New Jersey’s legal code relating to slavery was marked by internal divisions. Ultimately, slavery was not fully abolished in the state until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
Primary Sources
Explosion of the "Peacemaker"
1844 | Antebellum (1820-1861)
Lithograph print of the 1844 explosion of the "Peacemaker" on board the U.S.S. Princeton.
James Moore Wayne
1844 | Antebellum (1820-1861)
A daguerreotype of James Moore Wayne, Princeton class of 1808.
Abel P. Upshur
1844 | Antebellum (1820-1861)
Lithograph print of Abel Parker Upshur, a Princeton student expelled in 1807 who later became Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of State under President John Tyler.
Essay on Abolitionism
October 1844 | Antebellum (1820-1861)
An essay on abolitionism by Charles Hodge (class of 1815), an instructor at the Princeton Theological Seminary.
Deposition of William Churchill Houston in Furman v. Vanhorne
1785 | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
Deposition from the 1784-86 court case Furman v. Vanhorne related to determining the rightful owner of the enslaved man Prime.