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Slavery and the university : histories and legacies /

Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harris, Leslie M. (Editor ), Campbell, James T. (Editor ), Brophy, Alfred L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 AlabamaChapter 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 CollegePart 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 AlabamaChapter 16. Forgetting Slavery at Yale and Transylvania; Afterword; Contributors; Index.