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Albert Dod
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Albert Baldwin Dod (1805-1845) was a Princeton professor and a slaveholder at the time of the 1840 census.
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.
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.
Joseph Henry and Sam Parker
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Joseph Henry spent fourteen years at the College of New Jersey, serving as Chair of Natural History between 1832 and 1846. Sam Parker, his assistant, was a free Black man.
Primary Sources
Map of Liberia
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A map of Liberia showing the Greenville settlement, named after James Green (Class of 1809; did not graduate).
"Death of Professor Dod"
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An obituary for Albert Dod, a mathematics professor, slaveholder, and opponent of abolitionism.
Theodore S. Wright
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Lithograph portrait of the Rev. Theodore Sedgwick Wright (seminary class of 1828)