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Stories
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.
Moses Taylor Pyne and the Sugar Plantations of the Americas
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The financial contributions of Moses Taylor Pyne (Class of 1877), one of Princeton's most prominent benefactors, reveal the complex relationship between Princeton, the American sugar trade, and the slave economy.
John Maclean Jr. and Princeton’s Commitment to Sectional Harmony
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John Maclean Jr., Princeton’s tenth president (1854-1868), was a non-slaveholder and held moderate antislavery views. His commitment to attracting southern students to the college and reducing sectional tension on campus, however, contributed to Princeton’s conservatism in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Presbyterians and Slavery
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A truly national denomination from the 18th century to the Civil War, American Presbyterianism encompassed a wide range of viewpoints on slavery. Prominent leaders in the church were slaveholders, moderate antislavery advocates, and abolitionists.
James Collins Johnson: The Princeton Fugitive Slave
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James Collins Johnson, a fugitive slave freed after an 1843 trial in Princeton, became a prominent figure in town and on campus over the course of his many decades working at the College of New Jersey.
Primary Sources
"Effigy-Burning at Princeton College"
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A news item about the burning of John Brown in effigy at the College of New Jersey, printed in the Baltimore Sun.