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James Collins Johnson: The Princeton Fugitive Slave
No full textJames Collins Johnson, a fugitive slave freed after an 1843 trial in Princeton, became a prominent figure in town and on campus over the course of his many decades working at the College of New Jersey.
This material is an overview of a forthcoming book by the same author and was written for the Princeton and Slavery Project. Princeton University, founded as the College of New Jersey in 1746, exemplifies the central paradox of American history. From the start, liberty and slavery were intertwined. The Princeton and Slavery Project investigates the University’s involvement with the institution of slavery
Receipted bill to James Collins
No full textReceipted bill dated August 28, 1856 from Alexander, Houx and Company, Boonville, Missouri, to James Collins for household items and costs, including leather box, wash pan, dust pan, pans, bowl, candlesticks, match safe, slippers, etc. On illustrated letterhead of company, showing types of goods sold. HL introduction page overlaid by document. Receipt in English, handwritten, printed form filled in, 1pp/fr
Histoire de l'Etat monarchique : conférences de James Collins à Paris, mars 2013
No full textL'Etat monarchique vu des Etats-Unis : leçons de James Collins (Georgetown) au Collège de France, 5, 12, 19 et 26 mars 2013 James Collins sera à Paris en mars pour une série de leçons sur la monarchie française et l'histoire de l'Etat en France. Spécialiste de ces questions, James Collins a notamment travaillé sur la révolte de Bretagne (1675), et publié une des rares synthèses sur l'Etat monarchique français à l'époque moderne. Destinées à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à l'histoire socio-polit..
Histoire de l'Etat monarchique : conférences de James Collins à Paris, mars 2013
No full textL'Etat monarchique vu des Etats-Unis : leçons de James Collins (Georgetown) au Collège de France, 5, 12, 19 et 26 mars 2013 James Collins sera à Paris en mars pour une série de leçons sur la monarchie française et l'histoire de l'Etat en France. Spécialiste de ces questions, James Collins a notamment travaillé sur la révolte de Bretagne (1675), et publié une des rares synthèses sur l'Etat monarchique français à l'époque moderne. Destinées à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à l'histoire socio-polit..
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The Princeton fugitive slave ::the trials of James Collins Johnson /
No full textJames Collins Johnson was an escaped slave working at Princeton University in 1843 when he was arrested and tried as a fugitive. Though convicted and slated for return to slavery, he was redeemed by a local white woman. Johnson became one of the best-known vendors at Princeton over his six-decade career
The Princeton fugitive slave the trials of James Collins Johnson
No full textJames Collins Johnson was an escaped slave working at Princeton University in 1843 when he was arrested and tried as a fugitive. Though convicted and slated for return to slavery, he was redeemed by a local white woman. Johnson became one of the best-known vendors at Princeton over his six-decade caree
The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson
No full textJames Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what is now Princeton University. After only four years, he was recognized by a student from Maryland, arrested, and subjected to a trial for extradition under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act. On the eve of his rendition, after attempts to free Johnson by force had failed, a local aristocratic white woman purchased Johnson’s freedom, allowing him to avoid re-enslavement. The Princeton Fugitive Slave reconstructs James Collins Johnson’s life, from birth and enslaved life in Maryland to his daring escape, sensational trial for re-enslavement, and last-minute change of fortune, and through to the end of his life in Princeton, where he remained a figure of local fascination.
Stories of Johnson’s life in Princeton often describe him as a contented, jovial soul, beloved on campus and memorialized on his gravestone as “The Students Friend.” But these familiar accounts come from student writings and sentimental recollections in alumni reports—stories from elite, predominantly white, often southern sources whose relationships with Johnson were hopelessly distorted by differences in race and social standing. In interrogating these stories against archival records, newspaper accounts, courtroom narratives, photographs, and family histories, author Lolita Buckner Inniss builds a picture of Johnson on his own terms, piecing together the sparse evidence and disaggregating him from the other black vendors with whom he was sometimes confused.
By telling Johnson’s story and examining the relationship between antebellum Princeton’s black residents and the economic engine that supported their community, the book questions the distinction between employment and servitude that shrinks and threatens to disappear when an individual’s freedom is circumscribed by immobility, lack of opportunity, and contingency on local interpretations of a hotly contested body of law.https://scholar.smu.edu/facbooks/1011/thumbnail.jp
Pershing and Lt. James Collins Near El Valle, Crossing Santa Maria River with Expeditionary Forces in Mexico
No full textImage of General John Pershing, Lieutenant James Collins, and others crossing a river on horseback
Oral history interview with James Collins (OH-052), audio recording and transcript, 2005
Get PDFMr. James Collins reflects on his experiences following the 1974 Garrity decision, which required some students to be bused between Boston neighborhoods with the intention of creating racial balance in the public schools. He discusses his upbringing in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood; his family’s educational experiences in Boston; reactions to the Garrity decision in Charlestown; and the impact that the decision has had on education and neighborhood dynamics in Boston.https://dc.suffolk.edu/moh/1049/thumbnail.jp
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