He, too, remained at the university until his death, in 1868.įrom Album, University of North Carolina in North Carolina Collection (VC378 UVF). Swain was a wealthy man by the standards of the day, owning slaves and real estate in both North Carolina and Tennessee. He had studied law, gone into politics, and been elected governor in 1832. Unlike his predecessor, he was a North Carolinian and he did not have an academic background. Pleasant Henderson, whose career had included helping Daniel Boone build the Wilderness Road, followed Taylor as steward he also owned nineteen slaves.Īfter Caldwell died in 1835, David Lowry Swain became president of the university.
John Taylor, who was the university's first steward, owned nineteen slaves. In the entire village of Chapel Hill, there were sixty-three slaves in 1800, and well over half of them belonged to two individuals. The federal census of 1800 contains a single entry for "Joseph Caldwell & the Other Professors" and indicates that two slaves were part of this "household." These slaves likely were Caldwell's personal servants, but it seems possible that they also had some university-related duties. Mitchell, in fact, became something of an apologist for slavery. Though they were northerners, all of them also adopted the practice of owning slaves. All three were Presbyterian ministers, and all three remained at the university until their deaths. James Phillips was born in England, emigrated to the United States in 1815, and established a school for boys in Harlem, New York, before moving to Chapel Hill in 1826. Elisha Mitchell, who arrived in 1818, was a native of Connecticut and graduate of Yale University. Joseph Caldwell, who came to the university in 1796, was a New Jersey native and graduate of the College of New Jersey (Princeton). Several of the key antebellum faculty were not North Carolinians or even southerners.
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