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Stories
Princeton in the Newspapers
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News about the College of New Jersey and its students—including their connections to the South—spread across the country through multiple forms of print media.
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.
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.
Primary Sources
"Negro Servant"
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An ad to sell a slave placed by Samuel Stanhope Smith in 1784.
"Brandy ... 100 pipes Brandy"
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1803 New York Evening Post ad detailing trustee Robert Lenox's goods from around the globe.
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."
"Negro Boy" to be sold by John Maclean Sr.
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Newspaper ad placed by Professor John Maclean Sr. to sell a young enslaved man.
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.”