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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Slavery and the university : Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2019] (OCoLC)1080938500 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Leslie M Harris; James T Campbell; Alfred L Brophy |
ISBN: | 9780820354439 0820354430 9780820354422 0820354422 9780820354446 0820354449 |
OCLC Number: | 1030914899 |
Description: | viii, 354 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part 1. Proslavery and Antislavery Thought and Action; Chapter 1. "Sons from the Southward & Some from the West Indies": The Academy and Slavery in Revolutionary America; Chapter 2. Princeton and Slavery: Holding the Center; Chapter 3. Proslavery Political Theory in the Southern Academy, 1832-1861; Chapter 4. Negotiating the Honor Culture: Students and Slaves at Three Virginia Colleges; Chapter 5. Making Their Case: Religion, Pedagogy, and the Slavery Question at Antebellum Emory College Chapter 6. "I Whipped Him a Second Time, Very Severely": Basil Manly, Honor, and Slavery at the University of Alabama; Chapter 7. "Two Youths (Slaves) of Great Promise": The Education of David and Washington McDonogh at Lafayette College, 1838-1844; Chapter 8. "I Am a Man": Martin Henry Freeman (Middlebury College, 1849) and the Problems of Race, Manhood, and Colonization; Chapter 9. Towers of Intellect: The Struggle for African American Higher Education in Antebellum New England Chapter 10. "I Have At Last Found My 'Sphere'": The Unintentional Development of a Female Abolitionist Stronghold at Oberlin College; Part 2. Remembering and Forgetting Slavery at Universities; Chapter 11. Slavery and Justice at Brown: A Personal Reflection; Chapter 12. Harvard and Slavery: A Short History; Chapter 13. Scholars, Lawyers, and Their Slaves: St. George and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker in the College Town of Williamsburg; Chapter 14. The "Family Business": Slavery, Double Consciousness, and Objects of Memory at Emory University Chapter 15. Engaging the Racial Landscape at the University of Alabama Chapter 16. Forgetting Slavery at Yale and Transylvania; Afterword; Contributors; Index |
Responsibility: | edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell & Alfred L. Brophy. |
Abstract:
Presents scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. The collection features broadly themed essays on religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions.
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