Campus Tour on the History of Slavery at the University
Presentation Type
Event
Location
(meet at Lyceum steps facing the Circle)
Start Date
12-10-2023 1:30 PM
End Date
12-10-2023 2:30 PM
Description
For several years, members of University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group have been offering campus slavery tours to their own students, to visiting scholars, and on request. These tours, which can vary between 45 minutes and an hour and a half in length, seek to make the UMSRG’s findings publicly available in an easily digestible format. The tours we’ve been giving vary from guide to guide, but generally include information about:
- the development of the antebellum campus the centrality of enslaved laborers in the construction and daily operation of the antebellum campus
- the conditions under which enslaved people worked on campus the slaveholdings of early UM students, faculty, and trustees, as well as their ideological commitments to slavery
- slavery’s role as the central cause of the Civil War
- slavery’s relationship to Confederate iconography and memorialization
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
University of Mississippi. Slavery Research Group, "Campus Tour on the History of Slavery at the University" (2023). Conference on the Civil War. 1.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/civilwar_conference/2023/schedule/1
Campus Tour on the History of Slavery at the University
(meet at Lyceum steps facing the Circle)
For several years, members of University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group have been offering campus slavery tours to their own students, to visiting scholars, and on request. These tours, which can vary between 45 minutes and an hour and a half in length, seek to make the UMSRG’s findings publicly available in an easily digestible format. The tours we’ve been giving vary from guide to guide, but generally include information about:
- the development of the antebellum campus the centrality of enslaved laborers in the construction and daily operation of the antebellum campus
- the conditions under which enslaved people worked on campus the slaveholdings of early UM students, faculty, and trustees, as well as their ideological commitments to slavery
- slavery’s role as the central cause of the Civil War
- slavery’s relationship to Confederate iconography and memorialization
