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Stories
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.
The Manumission of Prime
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In 1786, an enslaved man named Prime became one of only three enslaved people to be manumitted by act of the New Jersey legislature in exchange for his service during the Revolutionary War.
Strategies for Escape: A Study of Fugitive Slave Ads (1770-1819)
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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.
Primary Sources
Receipt for hire of Cesar
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Richard Stockton submitted this account to the Trustees of the College of New Jersey after hiring out a man named Cesar to the college for unspecified work. Although Princeton as an institution never owned enslaved people, if the Cesar named here was an enslaved man, this document shows that the college did engage enslaved laborers for work on campus.