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Princeton and Slavery: A Timeline

Published Nov. 5, 2017

A Timeline 19 AUG. After the death of College president Samuel Finley, executors of his estate sell his belongings outside of what is now Maclean House: furniture, cattle, books, and “two Negro women, a Negro man, and three Negro children.” 22 OCT. King George II charters the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, in Elizabeth, N.J. The seven founding trustees all owned slaves. Of the five trustees added to the charter in 1747, four were slaveholders. The second-oldest building on campus, the P

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Published in the Nov. 8, 2017, Issue

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