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Stories
Princeton’s Founding Trustees
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A firm majority of Princeton's founding trustees (sixteen out of twenty-three) bought, sold, traded, or inherited slaves during their lifetimes.
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.
Lincoln and the Election of 1860
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Princeton students engaged in heated debates over slavery during the contentious 1860 election, in which New Jersey was the only northern state where Abraham Lincoln lost the popular vote.
Fundraising for Nassau Hall
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Many of the donors and fundraisers who contributed to the construction of Nassau Hall had substantial personal, familial, or business ties to slavery and the slave trade.
The Civil War Comes to Princeton in 1861
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Tensions between Unionist and Secessionist students reached their peak in 1861, shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War.
Primary Sources
"To the Editor of the Liberator"
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Notice of a new abolitionist group in Princeton, sent to William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Liberator.
Letter from Lewis C. Gunn
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Letter from seminary student Lewis C. Gunn to abolitionist Amos A. Phelps.