Several of my research reports on slavery at the College have recently been made available at



https://www.wm.edu/sites/lemonproject/researchandresources/resourcesandresearch/index.php



(Click on "Resources & Research at the College”)



These include 1) my raw notes from the Faculty Minutes and Bursar’s Books trying to capture in some (sometimes rough) form all the  allusions in each to slavery and the College’s enslaved, and 2) a report drawing on a long-forgotten account book by Thomas Roderick Dew to document the life and burial of “Joe,” an enslaved laborer at W&M.  Dew records a payment for the burial of Joe, possibly off-campus and possibly at a potter’s field in Williamsburg that, I argue, likely existed in the 18th as well as the 19th C.



I’d be grateful to learn of any work on potter’s fields in Virginia, especially their history.



I might mention too the publication of my Encyclopedia Virginia article on Slavery at W&M:



https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Slavery_at_the_College_of_William_and_Mary





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Terry L.. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, Emeritus, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia  23187



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