The Education of Betsey Stockton: an Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom by Gregory Nobles

Author:Gregory Nobles [Nobles, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO000000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, BIO002010 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black, SOC001000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, HIS036040 HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-05-27T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 6.1. First Presbyterian Church, Princeton, NJ, Collection of the Historical Society of Princeton.

On April 13, 1840, James Alexander, who had been serving as supply pastor for the Black Presbyterians, wrote that “We dedicated our new African meeting-house.” It was not as grand as the new ionic-columned brick church for white Presbyterians on Nassau Street, but a simple wooden structure that could accommodate a good-sized congregation. On one level, the building was a gift to the Black Presbyterians, but on another it signified a guarantee that they would not come back to the main church—a hard bargain, but one they could not easily refuse. Within a few months, John Lowrey, apparently speaking “in behalf of the Coloured People,” came before the Presbyterian elders to request “a separate Communion in their own Church.” At that point, the racial separation of Princeton Presbyterian seemed to be complete.14

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