Ashbel Green

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• A later-verified career timeline shows Green resigning his professorship in 1787 to become pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and serving there until 1812 when he became Princeton president.
• Newly documented detail notes Green owned three house slaves, yet opposed slavery philosophically and religiously, and treated enslaved people as household members, with emphasis on humane treatment and religious instruction.

Add: Subsequently Green resigned his professorship in 1787 and accepted a position as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia which he held until he was named Princeton president in 1812. Add: Although Green was an owner of three house slaves he opposed the institution on moral and religious grounds compelling him to treat them humanely and as members of his household He taught them religion and how to read and as members of his household insisted that they attend church services He did not believe setting them free having no means of self support simply to appease his moral conscious was practical or beneficial for them.

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