{"id":263045,"date":"2018-11-27T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=263045"},"modified":"2018-11-27T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:01:37","slug":"princeton-revisits-its-history-of-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/princeton-revisits-its-history-of-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton revisits its history of slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton University, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States, recently published the <em>Princeton and Slavery Project<\/em>, which investigates the institution&#8217;s involvement with slavery in the country. The documents show that the first nine Princeton presidents (deans) owned slaves and that there was even a slave sale on campus in 1766. Enslaved people lived at the president\u2019s house until at least 1822. The first black student graduated from Princeton in the 1890s, having earned a master&#8217;s degree. According to the project, which is ongoing, the university also received donations derived from the profits of slave labor. Conducted by Martha Sandweiss, a history professor at the university, the <em>Princeton and Slavery Project<\/em> features at least 360 documents, including photographs, slave sale announcements, descriptions of the institution&#8217;s black community, illustrations in student journals, and student letters. Another 12 US universities, including Harvard, have already revealed their historical ties to slavery. According to an article published in <em>The New York Times<\/em> in April, Princeton announced that it plans to rename two spaces on campus in homage to the slaves who once lived or worked there. A public garden will be named after Betsey Stockton, who worked at the home of some of the institution&#8217;s first presidents, and the arch that students pass under during graduation ceremonies will take the name of James Collins Johnson, a fugitive slave who worked as a janitor and campus vendor from 1839 to 1843, until a student alerted his previous owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Project investigates the institution&#8217;s involvement with slavery in the country","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":263046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[241],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-263045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269408,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263045\/revisions\/269408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263045"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=263045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}