The University Archivist often gives tours of Mead Hall.
You Tube video here
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Much of the recent research into Mead Hall/ the Gibbons mansion has come out of the Theological School. A 2020 class session of Race, Place, and Privilege had an entire group of students research materials from the Gibbons Collection. Among those students, the one whom I've had the most contact with is Karen Mancinelli-Paige (kmancinellipaig@drew.edu), cc'd here. She shared some of her research:
I don't think we know the names of the 14 free colored persons or their descendents yet.