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2. Old Money: Rutgers University and the Political Economy of Slavery in New Jersey
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction: Scarlet and Black—A Reconciliation 1
- 1. "I Am Old and Weak . . . and You Are Young and Strong . . . ": The Intersecting Histories of Rutgers University 6 and the Lenni Lenape 6
- 2. Old Money: Rutgers University and the Political Economy of Slavery in New Jersey 43
- 3. His Name Was Will: Remembering Enslaved Individuals in Rutgers History 58
- 4. 'I Hereby Bequeath . . . ": Excavating the Enslaved from the Wills of the Early Leaders of Queen’s College 82
- 5. "And I Poor Slave Yet": The Precarity of Black Life in New Brunswick, 1766–1835 91
- 6. From the Classroom to the American Colonization Society: Making Race at Rutgers 123
- 7. Rutgers: A Land-Grant College in Native American History 150
- Epilogue: Scarlet in Black—On the Uses of History 160
- Acknowledgments 165
- Notes 167
- List of Contributors 205
- ABOUT THE EDITORS 209
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction: Scarlet and Black—A Reconciliation 1
- 1. "I Am Old and Weak . . . and You Are Young and Strong . . . ": The Intersecting Histories of Rutgers University 6 and the Lenni Lenape 6
- 2. Old Money: Rutgers University and the Political Economy of Slavery in New Jersey 43
- 3. His Name Was Will: Remembering Enslaved Individuals in Rutgers History 58
- 4. 'I Hereby Bequeath . . . ": Excavating the Enslaved from the Wills of the Early Leaders of Queen’s College 82
- 5. "And I Poor Slave Yet": The Precarity of Black Life in New Brunswick, 1766–1835 91
- 6. From the Classroom to the American Colonization Society: Making Race at Rutgers 123
- 7. Rutgers: A Land-Grant College in Native American History 150
- Epilogue: Scarlet in Black—On the Uses of History 160
- Acknowledgments 165
- Notes 167
- List of Contributors 205
- ABOUT THE EDITORS 209