Universities and Slavery

CNN has a nice story detailing recent discussions at William and Mary, Brown, and Emory about their connections to slavery.  Mark Auslander provides particularly apt comments in the story -- and this reminds me that I am very much looking forward to his forthcoming book, The Accidental Slaveowner.

Thanks to Eric Muller, who called this article to my attention.

The image is the Few Literary Society building on Emory College's campus in Oxford, Georgia.  The literary societies at southern colleges were places that students and guests frequently discussed the importance of slavery (and here) and, thus, promulgated proslavery thought.

Comments

[Bill Turnier]

UNC has a very moving monument in tribute to the slaves who helped build the university. It is probably hard to appreciate with a picture but, Al, you can probably pull it off with your photography skills.

[Alfred Brophy]

Thanks, Bill -- I need to put up an image of the "Forgotten Founders." I hope to get to that in a few days.