Invisible Founders

How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College

AvLynn Rainville

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women's college in 1906. This volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a college founded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process, Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college "founder" is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution - one that serves as a microcosm of the American South.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:496 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781789202311

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Lynn Rainville is the Dean of Sweet Briar College. For over two decades she has studied the lives of exceptional, yet overlooked, Americans. This work has been supported by numerous grants and she has written five books (on Mesopotamian houses, African American cemeteries, Sweet Briar College, and Virginia's role in World War I). She directs the Tusculum Institute for local history and historic preservation at Sweet Briar College.

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“Invisible Founders is a different kind of history of the university and the Black past than most of those published in the past few years, but that is one that has much to offer individuals who are working to bring this history to light at their own institutions.” • Journal of Southern History

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Invisible WorkersChapter 2. Family Origins, 1685-1810Chapter 3. Slavery in Virginia, 1811-1830Chapter 4. Survival Strategies, 1831-1857Chapter 5. Families Divided, 1858-1865Chapter 6. Freedom Communities, 1866-1883Chapter 7. Mourning the Dead, 1884-1900Chapter 8. Forgotten Founders, 1901-2001Chapter 9. Commemorating FoundersBibliographyIndex