Forthcoming, Invisible Founders: How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College (Berghahn Press, June 2019).

An in-depth study of an enslaved community and their many unrecognized contributions that created an institution of higher education where even now, in the 21st century, descendants from the original plantation community continue to contribute to its success.
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