UVA's Investigation of Its Connections to Slavery

Thanks to Bill Turnier I see that the University of Virginia has formed a commission to study its connections to slavery.  Wow there's a lot to talk about there -- and I'll be interested in all the directions this can go, from the subtly anti-slavery alumni like Henry Tutweiler and the oddly proslavery alumni like Edgar Allen Poe, to the zealously proslavery faculty like Albert Taylor Bledsoe -- and of course hovering over all of this is Jefferson himself and his legacy.  The range of ideas in Charlottesville over the University's pre-Civil War life rival those at William and Mary; they are narrower than those at UNC.   Ah, more talk of "God and Man [and enslaved people] at the University of Virginia."

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[AGR]

This should be interesting.