From whence cometh my help : the African American community at Hollins College / Ethel Morgan Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Ethel Morgan, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hollins College--Biography.

Hollins College.

Hollins College--History.

African Americans--Virginia--Hollins--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Virginia--Hollins--Biography.

Hollins (Va.)--History.

Hollins (Va.).

Hollins (Va.)--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Smith (English, West Virginia U.), an alumna of Hollins College, explores the school's shadow side, examining the ways that slavery and later race regulated servitude sustained the institution for nearly 150 years. She uses interviews with senior members of the Hollins Community, the name given to the black laborers at the college, as well as personal observations and historical research to tell this long-silenced story. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Prologue

Acknowledgments

1 In the Beginning

2 Meet Julius Caesar of Hollins College The Most Widely Known Colored Man in Virginia

3 I Saw Lee Surrender

4 Thursday Afternoons

5 Dean of Servants

6 The Price of Change

7 The Voice of Mrs. Mary Emma Bruce, Historian and Philosopher

8 The Lord Keeps Me

9 Other Voices of Silence

10 President in a Pot

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-140) and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6163-9

OCLC:

57410799