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Marcus Marsh and Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia

WEBMarcus Marsh, on the other hand, appeared frequently. In 1793, 28-year-old Marsh’s presence proved vital to the middle-aged physician as he endeavored to treat victims of …

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Princeton & Slavery Betsey Stockton

WEBIntroduction. Betsey Stockton’s life followed a remarkable trajectory from slavery to freedom, from Princeton to the Pacific, and back again. It illustrates how a single woman …

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Princeton & Slavery Princeton and Slavery: Holding the Center

WEBIntroduction. In the spring of 1766, Samuel Finley, fifth President of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), planted two sycamore trees in front …

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Princeton Students Attempt to Lynch an Abolitionist

WEBThe Secret Meeting. On March 17, 1835, Lewis Gunn, a student at the Princeton Theological Seminary, posted a furtive letter to Amos Phelps, an agent for the American …

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Aaron Burr Jr. and John Pierre Burr: A Founding Father and his

WEBAaron Burr Jr. and Slavery. Aaron Burr Jr., was born into a slaveholding family on February 6, 1756. When his father, the Reverend Aaron Burr Sr., moved into the College of New …

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Princeton & Slavery Jonathan Edwards Sr.

WEBJonathan Edwards Sr. (1703-58), who served as Princeton’s third president for less than two months, exercised an immense influence on religious and intellectual thought in …

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Princeton & Slavery “Let the Southerns Come Here”: Letters of a

WEBOn September 28, 1855, Henry Kirke White Muse (c.1838-1858) left his “parental root,” a family plantation in Louisiana, to “launch” himself “into the cold world” as a freshman at …

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Integrating Princeton University: Robert Joseph Rivers

WEBBy April C. Armstrong. Robert Joseph Rivers (Class of 1953) was one of Princeton’s first Black undergraduate students and one of the first two Black members of the Board of …

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Princeton's Antebellum Boarding House Culture

WEBBefore 1865, the Passages boarded 34 southern students total, the second-highest number for any Princeton boarding house. Even more telling, 77% of all of the boarders the …

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Strategies for Escape: A Study of Fugitive Slave Ads (1770-1819)

WEBOn Sunday December 30, 1798, an enslaved man named Jack ran away from Fred Cruser’s property of Rocky Hill Mills near Princeton, New Jersey. Cruser published a …

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Princeton & Slavery Princeton and Slavery: Holding the Center

WEBIntroduction. In the spring of 1766, Samuel Finley, fifth President of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), planted two sycamore trees in front of the …

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Princeton & Slavery Primus

WEBDid You Know? Most of Princeton's founding trustees bought, sold, traded, or inherited slaves. Read More

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Princeton & Slavery Letter from Erkuries Beatty

WEBPrinceton NJ, March 20, 1819 Dear Hunter, My Black man Joe has absconded from me on last Thursday night a week ago, & this evening I heard of his crossing the Bridge at …

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Princeton & Slavery Letter from Harriet Beech

WEBPrinceton 6th Jan. 1838. Dear Brothers and Sisters I have taken the pleasure to write these few lines to inform you that l am in a good state of health and that I have privilege three …

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2 – RACIAL VIOLENCE IN PRINCETON, NJ

WEBDocument 3 Thomas March Clark to John Milton Clapp, Esq., Beaufort, South Carolina

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Princeton & Slavery Aaron Burr Jr. and John Pierre Burr: A …

WEBAaron Burr Jr. and Slavery. Aaron Burr Jr., was born into a slaveholding family on February 6, 1756. When his father, the Reverend Aaron Burr Sr., moved into the College of New …

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