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Princeton and Abolition
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Princeton’s faculty and students actively opposed abolition, creating a climate of fear and intimidation around the subject during the 19th century. Although some Princeton affiliates were critical of slavery, the institution demonstrated a catastrophic failure of leadership on the greatest moral question of the age.
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"A Negro fellow, Cuff"
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Advertisement for an enslaved man who ran away after attacking his master.
Did You Know...?Money from Cuban sugar plantations drove the expansion of the Princeton campus.
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