Remember with Us: Commemoration of the Enslaved [April 25, 2023]
Abstract
Description
As an outgrowth of the course taught by Dr. Joseph Soares, Sociology 391: Social Memories: Nazi Holocaust and US Civil War, his students focused the university's attention on an important part of Wake Forest University history previously ignored--namely, the selling of enslaved persons (as part of the Blount estate, link: https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/93888) on May 7th, 1860 to financially support Wake Forest. This video captures students from this course, supported by the Department of Sociology and School of Divinity, who commemorated this part of WFU history.
Keywords
Remember with Us, Wake Forest University--History, Slavery--United States--History, Enslaved persons--United States, Memory--Social aspects--United States, Collective memory, Music in universities and colleges--United States, Black alumni