Institutional slavery : slaveholding churches, schools, colleges, and businesses in Virginia, 1680-1860 /
The traditional image of slavery begins with a master and a slave. However, not all slaves had traditional masters; some were owned instead by institutions, such as church congregations, schools, colleges, and businesses. This practice was pervasive in early Virginia; its educational, religious, and...
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Cambridge :
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- "Unlawful for any Christian": slave-owning Anglican churches in Virginia
- "The legacies of well inclined gentlemen": slave-owning free schools in Virginia
- "The worst kind of slavery": slave-owning Presbyterian churches in Virginia
- "So large a family as the college": slavery at the College of William and Mary
- "Faithful and valuable": slavery at Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Virginia, and Hollins College
- "To make a trifle for themselves": industries as institutional slaveholders.
