Samuel Stanhope Smith (1751-1819)
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This white person has 3 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
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- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02446
- Given Name
- Samuel Stanhope
- Family Name
- Smith
- Birth Date
- 1751
- Death Date
- 1819
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
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Samuel Stanhope Smith was a Presbyterian clergyman and professor. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1751, graduated from Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey) in 1769, and went as a missionary to Virginia where he founded Hampden-Sydney College in 1775 and served as its first president. In 1779 he returned to New Jersey to teach at Princeton. He served as the seventh president of Princeton from 1795 to 1812.
Smith held Black people in bondage in his household in Princeton in the 1780s. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Princeton University history
- clergy
- Places
- Princeton
- Organization
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- President
- Instructor
- Alumnus
- References
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Nicholas Guyatt, "Samuel Stanhope Smith," Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/samuel-stanhope-smith.
R. Isabela Morales, "Slavery at the President's House," Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/presidents-house.
This person is represented on the following page(s):
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Stanhope_Smith - Record Contributor
- Kayra Guven
- Princeton & Slavery Project
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Sources
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Author:
- Slave sale ad for a Black boy, by Samuel Stanhope Smith (Slave sale ad for a Black boy, by Samuel Stanhope Smith, "TO BE SOLD," New-Jersey Gazette, November 29, 1780.)
- Slave sale ad for a Black man, by Samuel Stanhope Smith (Slave sale ad for a Black man, by Samuel Stanhope Smith, "TO BE SOLD," New-Jersey Gazette, March 30, 1784.)
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Additional Participant in:
- 1780-05-20 Freedom Seeking: Michael Hoy (Role: Advertiser)
- 1780-11-20 Advertisement: Black boy aged 11 (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)
- 1784-03-25 Advertisement: Black man aged 25 (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)