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Slavery at the President's House
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At least five Princeton presidents who served between 1756 and 1822 owned enslaved people who lived, worked—and on one occasion were auctioned off—at the President’s House on campus. During this period, the President’s House was the center of slavery at Princeton.
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Thomas Osburn (alias Thomas Hardsburn)
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Newspaper advertisement for a runaway servant
Did You Know...?African Americans worked on campus as students, staff, and teaching assistants.
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