Projects of the UMSRG

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  Campus Tours

  University of Mississippi. Slavery Research Group

  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.

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  Maps

  University of Mississippi. Slavery Research Group

  Campus maps have helped us identify several buildings that may have been used as living space for enslaved people and servants from the 1850s to the 1890s. But the search for such data netted information about the surrounding area as well.

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  Rowan Oak

  University of Mississippi. Slavery Research Group

  The University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group, the Center for Archaeological Research, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology continue their search for evidence of slave life through an excavation on the grounds of Rowan Oak, a National Historic Landmark. Our research interest is in the pre-Faulkner era of the property, from 1848-1865.

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  Saying Their Names

  University of Mississippi. Slavery Research Group

  The UM Slavery Research Group has tried to identify as many enslaved workers on our campus as possible, but names remain elusive and this work continues.

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  Slavery at UM

  University of Mississippi. Slavery Research Group

  The stories of slavery and the University of Mississippi are not completely lost. Many fragile traces of antebellum slave life on this campus are actually “hidden in plain sight.” We know, for instance, the names of the enslavers and the extent of their slave ownership. We also know that slavery was a fact of life in North Mississippi prior to the Civil War. Nevertheless, even these facts and details are often obscured by lenses of misperception and misunderstanding.

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  Slavery Research and Public Engagement Projects

  University of Mississippi. Slavery Research Group

  This academic development is part of a larger international movement that recognizes the need for museums, memorials, and historic markers that commemorate slavery and tell the story of slavery to current and future generations.

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  Year400 Lecture Series

  University of Mississippi. Slavery Research Group

  The University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group has helped organize a series of speakers and events across campus during the 2018-2019 academic year to commemorate the August 1619 arrival to British North America of the first recorded persons of African descent. This date has been traditionally understood as the moment when African slavery was introduced to what would eventually become the United States.