As a terrific and very current example of revisionist history, let me bring people’s attention to a lecture by my colleague Danielle Moretti-Langholtz featuring her presentation of a new understanding of the Brafferton School, the school for Indians at W&M dating from 1702; she focuses interestingly too on the process of arriving where she did:



https://www.wm.edu/sites/facultylecture/past/2023-fall/



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

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