Chapters in this book

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