200Results for "Antebellum (1820-1861)"
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 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.
Cezar Trent
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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
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More than half of the officers and founding members of the New Jersey Colonization Society were Princeton affiliates.
Princeton in the Newspapers
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News about the College of New Jersey and its students—including their connections to the South—spread across the country through multiple forms of print media.
Primary Sources
Mariano Rolando to Moses Taylor & Co.
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A letter that reveals the close relationship between the firm of Moses Taylor and its suppliers in Cuba.
F.G. Rolando to Moses Taylor & Co.
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A letter from F.G. Rolando, a Cuban supplier, to the firm of Moses Taylor & Co.
Order from Tomás Terry
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An order from Tomás Terry for two cargo ships.
New-Orleans Wholesale Prices Current
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A list of current wholesale prices that Moses Taylor & Co. received from New Orleans.
"Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Princeton"
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A pamphlet describing the establishment of the New Jersey Colonization Society in 1824.