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Thanks for the several replies about the group(s) taught by President Dawson…. Dawson was supportive of religious education for blacks locally and helped raise funds for a charity school in Maryland that admitted blacks; it’s striking that in one instance he refers to the College’s enslaved people as “persons belonging to the College,” not “slaves” or “servants,” the usual euphemism. All that suggests to me a kind of ecumenism that supports what I see as language that is clear in any case.
And now for something completely different……
NYPL has just digitized a massive amount of material, some of it photographs relating to Virginia:
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?filters%5Broot-collection%5D=5261fd50-c52e-012f-85ec-58d385a7bc34&keywords=virginia#/?scroll=3
It includes a view of the Williamsburg courthouse.
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-b90a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
I think I see one or more men playing musical instruments on the courthouse steps, and it looks like some kind of game, maybe a ball game, going on to the side. Can anyone figure out what the game might be?
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Terry L.. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia 23187 757-221-3932
http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/
http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html
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