1784-03-25 Advertisement: Black man aged 25
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01085
- Source
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Slave sale ad for a Black man, by Samuel Stanhope Smith
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Slave sale ad for a Black man, by Samuel Stanhope Smith, "TO BE SOLD," New-Jersey Gazette, March 30, 1784.
- Event Description
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Samuel Stanhope Smith (professor and later president of Princeton University) placed a slave sale advertisement in a Trenton newspaper. Smith sought to sell a 25-year-old Black man who was trained as a farmer and to acquire instead a new enslaved worker to perform domestic labor in Smith's home in Princeton.
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Transcript of the source document:
"TO BE SOLD,
Or exchanged for a servant accustomed to cooking and waiting in a genteel family,
A NEGRO SERVANT,
About 25 years of age, who is well acquainted with the business of a plantation, and used to taking care of horses. Enquire of the Printer, or of the subscriber in Princeton.
SAMUEL S. SMITH
March 25, 1784." - Event Type
- Advertisement
- Date
- March 25, 1784
- Location of Event
- Princeton
- Primary Participants
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Black man aged 25
Role: Advertised Person
Age: 25
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Samuel Stanhope Smith (1751-1819)
Verbatim description from source:
"A NEGRO SERVANT, About 25 years of age, who is well acquainted with the business of a plantation" - Additional Participants
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Samuel Stanhope Smith (1751-1819)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02446
Role: Enslaver, Advertiser - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker