27Results for "1862"
Stories
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 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.
Peter Scudder
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Peter Scudder rose from humble beginnings to become a successful businessman and a notable member of the free Black community in Princeton.
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.
The Potter Family of Prospect and Palmer Houses
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Prospect House and Palmer House, both now University properties, have deep links to the Potters—a slaveholding family with strong ties to Georgia as well as to Princeton and the College of New Jersey.
Primary Sources
Alfred Scudder
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Photo of Alfred Scudder, assistant to Professors Stephen Alexander and John Schanck, and janitor of Clio Hall.
"For the Presbyterian"
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Draft of a letter to the editor, written by John Maclean Jr., opposing a bill that would prevent free Black people or fugitive slaves from entering Pennsylvania.
James Simpson
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Photo of James Simpson, a campus worker.
Autograph Book Entry by Roland Cox
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Autograph book entry by Roland Cox (class of 1863) to Ewing Graham McClure ('1862).
Autograph Book Entry by Edward F. Neufville
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Autograph book entry by Edward F. Neufville (class of 1862) to Thomson McGowan ('1861).