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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.
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.
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Will of Mehetabel Kollock
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The will of Mehetabel Kollock, wife of Professor Henry Kollock, transferring enslaved women Hannah and Molley to the American Colonization Society.
Did You Know...?Money from Cuban sugar plantations drove the expansion of the Princeton campus.
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