{"product_id":"invisible-founders-how-two-centuries-of-african-american-families-transformed-a-plantation-into-a-college-9781800734449","title":"Invisible Founders: How Two Centuries of African","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tLiteral and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. This volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a college founded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process, \u003cem\u003eInvisible Founders\u003c\/em\u003e challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution — one that serves as a microcosm of the American South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eInvisible Founders \u003cem\u003eis a different kind of history of the university and the Black past than most of those published in the past few years, but that is one that has much to offer individuals who are working to bring this history to light at their own institutions.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of Southern History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Invisible Workers\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Family Origins, 1685–1810\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Virginian Slavery, 1811–1830\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Survival Strategies, 1831–1857\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Families Divided, 1858–1865\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Freedom Communities, 1866–1883\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mourning the Dead, 1884–1900\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Forgotten Founders, 1901–2001\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Commemorating Founders\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042745319767,"sku":"9781800734449","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800734449.jpg?v=1750955440","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/invisible-founders-how-two-centuries-of-african-american-families-transformed-a-plantation-into-a-college-9781800734449","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}