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From the University of Virginia's very inception, slavery was
deeply woven into its fabric. Enslaved people first helped to
construct and then later lived in the Academical Village; they
raised and prepared food, washed clothes, cleaned privies, and
chopped wood. They maintained the buildings, cleaned classrooms,
and served as personal servants to faculty and students. At any
given time, there were typically more than one hundred enslaved
people residing alongside the students, faculty, and their
families. The central paradox at the heart of UVA is also that of
the nation: What does it mean to have a public university
established to preserve democratic rights that is likewise founded
and maintained on the stolen labor of others? In Educated in
Tyranny, Maurie McInnis, Louis Nelson, and a group of contributing
authors tell the largely unknown story of slavery at the University
of Virginia. While UVA has long been celebrated as fulfilling
Jefferson's desire to educate citizens to lead and govern, McInnis
and Nelson document the burgeoning political rift over slavery as
Jefferson tried to protect southern men from anti-slavery ideas in
northern institutions. In uncovering this history, Educated in
Tyranny changes how we see the university during its first fifty
years and understand its history hereafter.
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