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Emory University and Slavery

Institutional Records

Digitized Institutional Records

Emory College, Board of Trustees records, 1837-1919

19 July 1848 Emory College Board of Trustees Minutes establishing a "negro" church. 

 

Emory College student organization records, 1839-1932, 2 November 1839, Few Society Minutes.

The Phi Gamma and Few literary societies regularly debated the social, political, and moral issues of the day, including slavery and secession. This book of Few Society minutes records the topic of the group’s upcoming debate, “Is Slavery a greater national evil than Intemperance?”

Emory University photograph collection, 1860-2003, EUA 111

Photographs depict the ongoing role that African Americans played in the labor economy of Oxford, GA and Emory University after the abolition slavery in the US.

Emory University photograph collection

Georgia Conference Manual Labor School Board of Trustees Minutes, 9 February 1837

The minutes from the Georgia Conference Manual Labor School, the predecessor to Emory College, show how the school “hired” slaves to perform work for the College.Transcription: Resolved that the Treasurer be instructed to pay the sum of Fifty Dollars for the hire of a negro woman by the name of Sib for 1836 and to give notes for the hire of the negroes ordered to be  hired for the present year at the following rates.  For Sim $150.  For Charles $150. For Sib and her children $75.

 

Georgia Conference Manual Labor School Board of Trustees minutes, 1835-1838