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Stories
Princeton Academies and Slavery
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Local academies in Princeton helped maintain the relationship between the College of New Jersey and the South.
Princeton’s Fugitive Slaves
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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.
The Slaves of John Maclean Sr.
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Lydia, Sal, and Charles were enslaved people who lived in early 19th-century Princeton. John Maclean Sr., a Princeton professor and the father of one of the college’s future presidents, owned all three.
Princeton’s Founding Trustees
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A firm majority of Princeton's founding trustees (sixteen out of twenty-three) bought, sold, traded, or inherited slaves during their lifetimes.
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.
Primary Sources
"Negro Servant"
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An ad to sell a slave placed by Samuel Stanhope Smith in 1784.
Edgehill Advertisement
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An endorsement for Edgehill school printed in a Natchez newspaper.
Abraham Sherrit
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Runaway advertisement placed by trustee Robert Lenox for the return of his slave Abraham Sherrit.
"A Cargo"
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Advertisement for "A CARGO consisting of about One Hundred and Twenty Young and Healthy NEW NEGROES."
"Brandy ... 100 pipes Brandy"
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1803 New York Evening Post ad detailing trustee Robert Lenox's goods from around the globe.
News
At Princeton, Titus Kaphar Reckons with the University’s History of Slavery
Artsy, 11/14/17
Kaphar’s sculpture Impressions of Liberty, which was commissioned by the Princeton University Art Museum, is “a monument to the memory of the enslaved.”