Goodness, wouldn't we be left only with the sundial school of history -- counting only the sunny hours?
David Kiracofe
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Subject: Re: Thinking about Slavery at William and Mary
Why would a college or university go to the trouble and expense to "investigate its history with regard to slavery and race"?Jeff Southmayd
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> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 06:14:12 -0400
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> Subject: Thinking about Slavery at William and Mary
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> [pls. excuse cross-postings]
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> For those perhaps interested in the College of William and Mary and
> its involvement in slavery, I've posted at SSRN an essay that will
> appear (in shortened form) in an inaugural volume of Occasional
> Papers to be issued by the Lemon Project (http://www.wm.edu/sites/
> lemonproject/?svr=web), an effort at the College to investigate its
> history with regard to slavery and race. In the meantime, the pre-
> print is available:
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> Meyers, Terry L. , Thinking About Slavery at the College of William
> and Mary (April 3, 2012). College of William & Mary Lemon Project
> Occasional Paper, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/
> abstract=2033882
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> "Thinking about Slavery at William and Mary" documents a more
> extensive uneasiness about slavery at William and Mary in the 18th
> and early 19th C than has generally been noticed.
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> Seeing that uneasiness, I suggest, was made difficult by cultural
> imperatives at the College and in Williamsburg from the post-
> Reconstruction years into the 20th Century. The result was an
> institutional memory that suppressed not only ownership of a tobacco
> plantation from 1718 to the end of the century but also the College's
> foundational affiliation from 1760 with a school for the religious
> education of black children free and enslaved; its awarding in 1791
> an honorary degree to Granville Sharp; and its first application, in
> 1807, from a black to attend lectures.*
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> Adding fuel to current fires, I trace Jefferson's hopes to get Notes
> on the State of Virginia (1785) into the hands of every student at
> the College even as he wished not to attract larger attention to his
> position on ultimately emancipating the enslaved.
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> * That letter itself may be of interest: https://
> digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/16301
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> Terry L.. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, College of William
> and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia 23187 757-221-3932
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> http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/
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> http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html
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