Background
The research team has spent years collecting stories and sources to explore the slaveholding practices of Princeton’s early trustees and faculty members, the impact of donations stemming from the profits of slave labor, and the broader culture of slavery in New Jersey state (which did not fully abolish slavery until 1865). The project also documents the southern origins of many Princeton students during the pre-Civil War period and considers how their presence shaped campus sentiment toward race and politics.
Over time, the collection of artifacts that resulted in the Princeton and Slavery Project grew out of their original website. The team contacted us, after seeing our work on a separate slavery-related project called Two Plantations.com, to design a website that was intuitive and could scale with additional source material.
