Musings on family history, regional history, book reviews, and miscellaneous observations and comments by a genealogist and librarian living near the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee.
Sunday, October 30, 2005
UNC & Slavery
LINK - Dick Eastman reports that the University of North Carolina is opening up its early records showing that the campus employed slave labor in its construction and that many faculty and administrators were slave owners. Not really all that surprising of a thing in a slave state IMHO. He contains a link to a fuller version of the story.
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