Description
The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is an ideal moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture.
Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which used to be neither casual nor accidental—nor ordinary. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. Men like John Henry Livingston, (Rutgers president from 1810–1824), the Reverend Philip Milledoler, (president of Rutgers from 1824–1840), Henry Rutgers, (trustee after whom the college is known as), and Theodore Frelinghuysen, (Rutgers’s seventh president), were a few of the most ardent anti-abolitionists in the mid-Atlantic.
Scarlet and black are the colors Rutgers University uses to represent itself to the nation and world. They’re the colors the athletes compete in, the graduates and administrators wear on celebratory occasions, and the colors that distinguish Rutgers from every other university in the USA. This book, on the other hand, uses these colors to signify something else: the blood that used to be spilled on the banks of the Raritan River by those dispossessed of their land and the bodies that labored unpaid and in bondage in order that Rutgers could be built and sustained. The contributors to this volume offer this history as a usable one—not to tear down or weaken this very renowned, robust, and growing institution—but to give a boost to it and help direct its course for the future.
The work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History.
Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which used to be neither casual nor accidental—nor ordinary. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. Men like John Henry Livingston, (Rutgers president from 1810–1824), the Reverend Philip Milledoler, (president of Rutgers from 1824–1840), Henry Rutgers, (trustee after whom the college is known as), and Theodore Frelinghuysen, (Rutgers’s seventh president), were a few of the most ardent anti-abolitionists in the mid-Atlantic.
Scarlet and black are the colors Rutgers University uses to represent itself to the nation and world. They’re the colors the athletes compete in, the graduates and administrators wear on celebratory occasions, and the colors that distinguish Rutgers from every other university in the USA. This book, on the other hand, uses these colors to signify something else: the blood that used to be spilled on the banks of the Raritan River by those dispossessed of their land and the bodies that labored unpaid and in bondage in order that Rutgers could be built and sustained. The contributors to this volume offer this history as a usable one—not to tear down or weaken this very renowned, robust, and growing institution—but to give a boost to it and help direct its course for the future.
The work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History.
Visit the project’s website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu
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