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portada Invisible Founders: How two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation Into a College
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
232
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781789202311
Edition No.
1

Invisible Founders: How two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation Into a College

Lynn Rainville (Author) · Berghahn Books · Hardcover

Invisible Founders: How two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation Into a College - Lynn Rainville

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Synopsis "Invisible Founders: How two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation Into a College"

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.

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