Institutional Slavery: Slaveholding Churches, Schools, Colleges, and Businesses in Virginia, 1680-1860
- ISBN-10
- 1316225488
- ISBN-13
- 9781316225486
- Category
- Slaveholders
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Author
- Jennifer Oast
Description
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 philanthropic institutions were literally built on the backs of slaves. Virginia's first industrial economy was also developed with the skilled labor of African American slaves. This book focuses on institutional slavery in Virginia as it was practiced by the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, free schools, and four universities: the College of William and Mary, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Virginia, and Hollins College. It also examines the use of slave labor by businesses and the Commonwealth of Virginia in industrial endeavors. This is not only an account of how institutions used slavery to further their missions, but also of the slaves who belonged to institutions.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2016-01-05
- - pages
- Ebook
- Cambridge University Press
-
- 2016-01-05
- 264 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
Similar books
-
James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery
By Drew Gilpin Faust"In this finely drawn and gracefully written biography ... Faust has done much more than provide us with a badly needed full-length study of a key political figure and proslavery ideologue in antebellum South Carolina.
-
From ETC. - An Amazing Conversation Between the Descendant of Slave Owner and Slave - A Chance at Healing and...
By Christopher Desloge, Theresa Delsoin... weight of anger & shame if one were to discern he was directly descendant of a slave and, separately a slave owner. ... only that person with cheeriness of how better angels won, leaving other descendants not so happily affected?
-
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
By Elizabeth Fox-GenovesePresenting America's slaveholders as men and women who were intelligent, honourable, and pious, this text asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself and enormity and ...