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| During the early- to mid-19th century in the North, "Africans and Native Americans were seen and treated as servants and inferior beings. Race prejudice was firmly in place" and these men "became a fixture in the workplace...through unfailing deference to whites." ((Beeching, p. 70)) In the 1830s, Edward Abdy observed that "there is, perhaps, no city, containing the same amount of population, where the blacks meet with more contumely and unkindness than at this place [Hartford, Conn.]. Some of them told me it was hardly safe for them to be in the streets alone at night." ((Beeching, p. 17)) | During the early- to mid-19th century in the North, "Africans and Native Americans were seen and treated as servants and inferior beings. Race prejudice was firmly in place" and these men "became a fixture in the workplace...through unfailing deference to whites." ((Beeching, p. 70)) In the 1830s, Edward Abdy observed that "there is, perhaps, no city, containing the same amount of population, where the blacks meet with more contumely and unkindness than at this place [Hartford, Conn.]. Some of them told me it was hardly safe for them to be in the streets alone at night." ((Beeching, p. 17)) |
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| {{ :prof._jim.png?400|Lithograph of "Prof. Jim," by D.W. Kellogg & Co. Photo Credit: [[http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/objects/3046/prof-jim?ctx=61a695c42886edc2890fe4922fbb4d52b3c4645b&idx=0|Connecticut Museum of Culture and History]].}} | [{{ :prof._jim.png?400|Lithograph of "Prof. Jim," by D.W. Kellogg & Co. Photo Credit: [[http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/objects/3046/prof-jim?ctx=61a695c42886edc2890fe4922fbb4d52b3c4645b&idx=0|Connecticut Museum of Culture and History]]}}] |
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| Students nicknamed the men who worked at Trinity facetiously, "mocking their lowly status" ((Beeching, p. 6)) with nicknames like "Professor Jim" for James Williams and "Uncle Billy" for William Adams. This callousness was ubiquitous for the white students who viewed Williams, Adams, and others as their subordinates. As one student wrote, "Whatever were Jim's capabilities and character, his circumstances were such as to render the chance of his ever becoming the president of a college, or the chief officer of a corporation, a moral impossibility." ((Trinity //Tablet//, June 8, 1878, p. 74)) | Students nicknamed the men who worked at Trinity facetiously, "mocking their lowly status" ((Beeching, p. 6)) with nicknames like "Professor Jim" for James Williams and "Uncle Billy" for William Adams. This callousness was ubiquitous for the white students who viewed Williams, Adams, and others as their subordinates. As one student wrote, "Whatever were Jim's capabilities and character, his circumstances were such as to render the chance of his ever becoming the president of a college, or the chief officer of a corporation, a moral impossibility." ((Trinity //Tablet//, June 8, 1878, p. 74)) |
