Elijah Slack (1784-1866)
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- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02463
- Given Name
- Elijah
- Family Name
- Slack
- Birth Date
- 1784
- Death Date
- 1866
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Teaching
- Biographical Description
- Elijah Slack was an enslaver who resided in Princeton, NJ, in the early 19th century. He was a professor at Princeton University (then called the College of South Jersey) and served as the college's vice president.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Princeton University history
- Places
- Princeton
- Organization
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Instructor
- Officer
- References
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Jessica R. Mack, "Princeton's Slaveholding Professors," Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/princetons-slaveholding-professors.
- Record Contributor
- Larissa Jimenez Gratereaux
- Princeton & Slavery Project
- Linked Sources
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Author:
- Slave sale ad for a 19-year-old Black girl, by Elijah Slack (Slave sale ad for a 19-year-old Black girl, by Elijah Slack, Fredonian, August 8, 1816, p. 4.)
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Additional Participant in:
- 1816-07-18 Advertisement: Black girl aged 19 (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)