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Stories
“Let the Southerns Come Here”: Letters of a Slaveholding Father and Son
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The extensive correspondence between antebellum Princeton student Henry Kirke White Muse and his slave-owning father illustrates the College of New Jersey’s appeal to southern students as well as its conservatism on the issue of slavery.
Princeton and South Carolina
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Princeton alumni from South Carolina owned successful plantations, large numbers of slaves, and served as leaders in the Confederate cause during the Civil War.
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.
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 Slaveholding Professors
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Many faculty members at the College of New Jersey owned slaves during the first century of the college’s history.
Primary Sources
"Letters on the Colonization Society"
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Pamphlet supporting the American Colonization Society, published in response to "the ardent opposition" of "some of our white citizens, and by a number of the free coloured population."
Letter from Joseph T. Crawford to the Captain-General of Cuba
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Documents that reveal the simultaneous demand for cargo ships and slaves.
"Rebellion at Princeton"
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A letter from Princeton detailing the 1817 riots, published in an Alexandria newspaper.
Letter from Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
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Letter from Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (class of 1820, non-graduate) to his son William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, discussing the capture of Joseph Breckinridge by the Confederate Army.
President Harold Dodds to Mrs. Harvey S. Firestone Jr.
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1946 letter from Princeton President Harold Dodds to Harvey Firestone Jr.'s wife, thanking her for the "generous Christmas present" of Firestone Company shares that she and her husband donated to Princeton that year.