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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.
Student Autograph Books and Collegiate Friendships
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Antebellum autograph books reveal the intimate, cross-sectional friendships northern and southern Princeton students formed in the years before the Civil War.
James McCosh and Princeton’s First Integrated Classrooms
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James McCosh, Princeton’s eleventh president (1868-88), admitted African American graduate students into his classes and strongly criticized slavery and the Confederacy—convictions that angered white southern students attending the college after the Civil War.
Primary Sources
Explosion of the "Peacemaker"
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Lithograph print of the 1844 explosion of the "Peacemaker" on board the U.S.S. Princeton.
View of South Street, from Maiden Lane, New York City
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An 1827 watercolor depiction of South Street, New York City, where Moses Taylor launched his commission business in the spring of 1832.
Nassau Hall ca. 1860
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Lithograph of Nassau Hall.
Gravesite of Francis Makemie
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Illustration of the statue erected at Presbyterian minister Francis Makemie's gravesite in Accomack County, Virginia.
Port of Savannah
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A View of the Port of Savannah in 1734.