Author: College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the College of New Jersey
Author: College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College (originally Queen's College)
Author: Rutgers CollegePublisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Princeton Fugitive Slave
Author: Lolita Buckner InnissPublisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823285367
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what is now Princeton University. After only four years, he was recognized by a student from Maryland, arrested, and subjected to a trial for extradition under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act. On the eve of his rendition, after attempts to free Johnson by force had failed, a local aristocratic white woman purchased Johnson’s freedom, allowing him to avoid re-enslavement. The Princeton Fugitive Slave reconstructs James Collins Johnson’s life, from birth and enslaved life in Maryland to his daring escape, sensational trial for re-enslavement, and last-minute change of fortune, and through to the end of his life in Princeton, where he remained a figure of local fascination. Stories of Johnson’s life in Princeton often describe him as a contented, jovial soul, beloved on campus and memorialized on his gravestone as “The Students Friend.” But these familiar accounts come from student writings and sentimental recollections in alumni reports—stories from elite, predominantly white, often southern sources whose relationships with Johnson were hopelessly distorted by differences in race and social standing. In interrogating these stories against archival records, newspaper accounts, courtroom narratives, photographs, and family histories, author Lolita Buckner Inniss builds a picture of Johnson on his own terms, piecing together the sparse evidence and disaggregating him from the other black vendors with whom he was sometimes confused. By telling Johnson’s story and examining the relationship between antebellum Princeton’s black residents and the economic engine that supported their community, the book questions the distinction between employment and servitude that shrinks and threatens to disappear when an individual’s freedom is circumscribed by immobility, lack of opportunity, and contingency on local interpretations of a hotly contested body of law.
Catalogue of Officers, Graduates and Students of Western Reserve College and Adelbert College, 1826-1916
Author: Western Reserve UniversityPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Catalogue of the American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi. [With] Catalogue of the Canadian and other British North American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi [and] Catalogue of the Mexican and other Spanish American & West Indian books in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856 [and] Catalogue of the American maps in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856
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Author: Henry StevensCatalogue of the Alumni, Officers and Fellows of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York
Author: College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : Medical colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia
Author: Library company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas MDCCCLVI.
Author: Henry StevensPublisher: London : C. Whittingham
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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