Primary Sources

An advertisement announcing the estate sale of President Samuel Finley, held at the President's House on campus.

Ann Maria Davison, a visitor from New Orleans, provided a detailed picture of Princeton's black community in 1855.

Cartoon from a student newspaper, The Nassau Rake, depicting two white men commenting on the attractiveness of black women in Princeton.

Photograph of former slave James Collins Johnson.

Portrait of Betsey Stockton, a former slave who served as a missionary and teacher in the Sandwich Islands (present-day Hawaii).