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Strategies for Escape: A Study of Fugitive Slave Ads (1770-1819)
by Andre Fernando Biehl | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
Runaway slaves from the Princeton area used sophisticated knowledge of the late-18th and early-19th century’s changing legal and political landscape when they planned their escapes, forcing slave-owners to acknowledge their resourcefulness and determination to liberate themselves.

Princeton’s Founding Trustees
by Michael R. Glass | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
A firm majority of Princeton's founding trustees (sixteen out of twenty-three) bought, sold, traded, or inherited slaves during their lifetimes.

Princeton’s Fugitive Slaves
by Joseph Yannielli | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820), Antebellum (1820-1861)
Princeton residents published at least 28 newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves between 1774 and 1818. Each tells a unique story of courage and resistance in the face of tremendous odds.

Aaron Burr Sr.
by Shelby Lohr | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
Aaron Burr Sr. (1716-1757), an influential scholar and religious leader of the colonial period, served as Princeton’s second president from 1748 to 1757. He oversaw the college’s move to its permanent campus in Princeton, and owned slaves while living in the President’s House.

Escape from Princeton
by Joseph Yannielli | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
In 1819, Princeton Mayor Erkuries Beatty engaged a recent College of New Jersey graduate to recapture his runaway slave, Joe. The incident underscores the terror and uncertainty of enslavement in central Jersey.
Primary Sources

"One Negro Man, One Negro Woman and two Children"
July 13, 1752 | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
A notice of the estate sale of Princeton trustee William Smith.

Prince
August 28, 1758 | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
An advertisement for a runaway slave placed by Princeton trustee William Peartree Smith.

"Negro Man and Two Negro Boys"
January 30, 1775 | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
Newspaper advertisement for a slave sale in Princeton.

Peet
November 14, 1774 | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
Newspaper advertisement for a runaway slave

Constant
July 11, 1774 | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
Newspaper advertisement for a runaway slave