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