Invisible Founders : : How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College / / Lynn Rainville.
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...
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Rainville, Lynn, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Invisible Founders : How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College / Lynn Rainville. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (232 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Invisible Workers -- Chapter 2. Family Origins, 1685–1810 -- Chapter 3. Virginian Slavery, 1811–1830 -- Chapter 4. Survival Strategies, 1831–1857 -- Chapter 5. Families Divided, 1858–1865 -- Chapter 6. Freedom Communities, 1866–1883 -- Chapter 7. Mourning the Dead, 1884–1900 -- Chapter 8. Forgotten Founders, 1901–2001 -- Chapter 9. Commemorating Founders -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022) African Americans Virginia Sweet Briar History. Slaves Virginia Sweet Briar History. Women's colleges Virginia Sweet Briar History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. bisacsh African American Narratives. American South. Private Women's College. Sweet Briar College. Virginia. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110997729 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789202328?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789202328 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789202328/original |
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