6Results for "1887"
Stories
The Manumission of Prime
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In 1786, an enslaved man named Prime became one of only three enslaved people to be manumitted by act of the New Jersey legislature in exchange for his service during the Revolutionary War.
Tracing Princeton’s Connections to Slavery: An Archivist’s View
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The work of collecting and organizing primary source material on Princeton’s connections to slavery required coordinated efforts of faculty, students, and library staff. This essay highlights some of the ways Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library staff have provided valuable specialized knowledge for the Princeton & Slavery Project.
James McCosh and Princeton’s First Integrated Classrooms
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James McCosh, Princeton’s eleventh president (1868-88), admitted African American graduate students into his classes and strongly criticized slavery and the Confederacy—convictions that angered white southern students attending the college after the Civil War.
Primary Sources
Thomas McCants Stewart
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Portrait of Thomas McCants Stewart, Princeton Theological Seminary student who enrolled as a graduate student at Princeton under President James McCosh. Stewart later traveled to Monrovia, Liberia, to teach at Liberia College.
Jonathan Dickinson
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A portrait of Jonathan Dickinson, founder and first president of the College of New Jersey.
Samuel Hopkins
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Engraving of theologian and abolitionist Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803).