Lecture: The History of Enslavement on the University of Alabama's Campus and the Memorial Landscape
Channel: University of Alabama Libraries
Date: 2021-04-08

Associate Professor of Art History Rachel Stephens discusses her research on the history and archives of slavery on the University of Alabama campus. Dr. Stephens mines information from trustees records, faculty minutes, Basil Manly’s diaries, and other sources, to excavate the spaces of enslavement as they exist today and in the nineteenth-century and how the campus community - including the dozens of enslaved persons - operated within it. She asks: How can we better understand and commemorate the African-American presence and experience on campus before the Civil War?
Presented by the University Libraries Lecture Series at the University of Alabama. Recorded April 7, 2021. 
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