Bard College Becomes 56th Member of Universities Studying Slavery (USS)
An initiative of the University of Virginia (UVA), the USS consortium facilitates collaboration among participating institutions as they address both historical and contemporary issues dealing with race and inequality in higher education and in university communities, as well as the complicated legacies of slavery in modern American society. Bard College’s participation in USS is an outgrowth of work begun by students in Professor Myra Young Armstead’s course The Window at Montgomery Place in the 19th Century, which offers an historical exploration of northern social hierarchies during the antebellum period and the critical role of slavery in their formation, using the Montgomery Place Campus as a case study.
Post Date: 08-28-2019
Post Date: 08-28-2019