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Princeton and Mississippi
by Trip Henningson | Antebellum (1820-1861)
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.
Cezar Trent
by Brett Diehl | Antebellum (1820-1861)
Cezar Trent, one of the elite free Black citizens of antebellum Princeton, was the employee of a prominent landowner, the object of a town resident's published recollections, and a slave owner himself.
Princeton and the New Jersey Colonization Society
by Kimberly Klein | Antebellum (1820-1861)
More than half of the officers and founding members of the New Jersey Colonization Society were Princeton affiliates.
The Witherspoon-Jackson Community
by Rina Azumi | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820), Antebellum (1820-1861)
The Witherspoon-Jackson community, centered around Witherspoon Street, comprised the heart of Princeton’s African-American community during the 19th century.
Peter Scudder
by Brett Diehl | Antebellum (1820-1861), Civil War (1861-1865)
Peter Scudder rose from humble beginnings to become a successful businessman and a notable member of the free Black community in Princeton.
Primary Sources
"A Visit to the Colored People of Princeton"
May 1855 | Antebellum (1820-1861)
Ann Maria Davison, a visitor from New Orleans, provided a detailed picture of Princeton's Black community in 1855.
Estimated Disembarkations of Slaves in North America, 1701–1870
| Colonial & Early National (1746-1820), Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
Chart showing the rise of the estimated number of disembarkations of slaves brought to Cuba from Africa between the late 1780s and the mid-1840s.
"Epicureans in Africa"
1854 | Antebellum (1820-1861)
A short story about fugitive slave and Princeton employee James C. Johnson.
Murder of Josiah Finley
15 March 1839 | Antebellum (1820-1861)
Newspaper report about Governor Josiah F. C. Finley (class of 1828), murdered near Liberia after departing a ship belonging to a slave trader.
Jonathan Edwards Sr. Letter on Slavery
c. 1741 | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
Draft letter on slavery written by Princeton president Jonathan Edwards Sr., in which he defends the practice of owning slaves.