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Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

by Simon Gikandi | Antebellum (1820-1861), Civil War (1861-1865), Reconstruction to Present (1865-)

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (class of 1849) was a celebrated classical scholar and unrepentant Confederate apologist. Gildersleeve’s education at Princeton, which he considered “almost a Southern college,” shaped his defense of the South during and after the Civil War.
Did You Know...?A fugitive slave worked on the Princeton campus. Read More