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Invisible Founders: How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 14 Oct 2023 03:46:57
Invisible Founders: How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College

Lynn Rainville, "Invisible Founders: How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College"
English | ISBN: 1800734441 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB

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,
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