Slavery in Princeton
A Digital Humanities Project by Andre Fernando Biehl
A Digital Humanities Project by Andre Fernando Biehl
My name is Andre Fernando Biehl and I am a former senior at Princeton High School (now attending Princeton University) in New Jersey. I have a strong interest in history, environmental and social justice, and civic engagement. From an early age, I have been interested in the history of slavery in the United States. This interactive website showcases my archival research on the institution of slavery in the northern ‘free state’ of New Jersey, with a focus on the town of Princeton (especially during the era of gradual emancipation).
To organize my findings, I developed a database that provides information about slaveholders and their residences in Princeton. I also created two interactive maps that show the location of slaveholding households and the possible routes that runaway slaves took in their efforts to free themselves.
I have published two research articles related to this study and have presented my findings at the Being Human Festival at Princeton University. The articles can be accessed here:
At Princeton High School, I am the co-editor-in-chief of the literary magazine The Ivy and founder and president of the VivaAmazon club that focuses on ways to safeguard the Amazon. I have volunteered with Imazon, an environmental organization in the Brazilian Amazon and with Migrant Worker Outreach in New Jersey. As an editor of the Latino Migrant Teen Journal, I collected the life stories of migrant farmworkers and interviewed civil rights and farmworker activist Dolores Huerta. See interview here.
If you would like to collaborate or add research findings to the Slavery in Princeton website, please contact [email protected] / [email protected]
Thank you!
Website created on September 1, 2017.
Latest update on October 28, 2019.
To organize my findings, I developed a database that provides information about slaveholders and their residences in Princeton. I also created two interactive maps that show the location of slaveholding households and the possible routes that runaway slaves took in their efforts to free themselves.
I have published two research articles related to this study and have presented my findings at the Being Human Festival at Princeton University. The articles can be accessed here:
- “Strategies for Escape: A Study of Fugitive Slave Ads (1770-1819)” https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/strategies-for-escape
- “Colonel Erkuries Beatty and the Business of Slavery in Princeton, New Jersey” https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/erkuries-beatty
At Princeton High School, I am the co-editor-in-chief of the literary magazine The Ivy and founder and president of the VivaAmazon club that focuses on ways to safeguard the Amazon. I have volunteered with Imazon, an environmental organization in the Brazilian Amazon and with Migrant Worker Outreach in New Jersey. As an editor of the Latino Migrant Teen Journal, I collected the life stories of migrant farmworkers and interviewed civil rights and farmworker activist Dolores Huerta. See interview here.
If you would like to collaborate or add research findings to the Slavery in Princeton website, please contact [email protected] / [email protected]
Thank you!
Website created on September 1, 2017.
Latest update on October 28, 2019.
