"From its founding in 1693 to the outbreak of the Civil War, the college owned, hired out, and rented slaves... Professors such as Thomas Roderick Dew [William &amp; Mary President 1836–1846] and Henry A. Washington argued that slavery was a benevolent institution serving a greater moral good... Professors' and students' paternalistic defenses of slavery in the antebellum period left an important impact on racial struggles at the College of William &amp; Mary." President Dew, author of "A Review of the Debates in the Legislature of 1831 and 1832", was the intellectual leader of the pro-slavery movement, and played a major role in ending the growing movement for liberating all of Virginia's slaves following Nat Turner's revolt of 1831.