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A Fuller Measure of Witherspoon on Slavery

Life and Books and Everything

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Introduction

Kevin Young: I wanted to read one more article that I've written on this John Witherspoon statue controversy at Princeton. The Council of the Princeton University Committee on naming is forming its recommendation in response to a petition initiated in May 2022. Petitioners have cited as reasons for the statue's removal, their beliefs that WitherSpoon participated actively in the enslavement of human beings and used his scholarly gifts to defend the practice.

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