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Informationen zum Autor MARISA J. FUENTES is an associate professor in women’s and gender studies and history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. DEBORAH GRAY WHITE is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author or editor of numerous books including, Ar’n’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South. Klappentext Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty. The contributors offer this history as a usable one—to strengthen Rutgers and help direct its course for the future. The work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. Zusammenfassung Documents the history of Rutgers's connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental - nor unusual. The book uses the Rutgers colours, scarlet and black, to signify the blood that was spilled by those dispossessed of their land and the bodies that laboured in bondage so that Rutgers could be built and sustained. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Richard L. Edwards Introduction: Scarlet and Black—A Reconciliation Deborah Gray White Chapter 1. “I Am Old and Weak . . . and You Are Young and Strong . . .”: The Intersecting Histories of Rutgers University and the Lenni Lenape Camilla Townsend,with Ugonna Amaechi, Jacob Arnay, Shelby Berner, Lynn Biernacki, Vanessa Bodossian, Megan Brink, Joseph Cuzzolino, Melissa Deutsch, Emily Edelman, Esther Esquenazi, Brian Hagerty, Blaise Hode, Dana Jordan, Andrew Kim, Eric Knittel, Brianna Leider, Jessica MacDonald, Kathleen Margeotes, Anjelica Matcho, William Nisley, Elisheva Rosen, Ryan Von Sauers, Ethan Smith, Amanda Stein, and Chad Stewart Chapter 2. Old Money: Rutgers University and the Political Economy of Slavery in New Jersey Kendra Boyd, Miya Carey, and Christopher Blakely Chapter 3. His Name Was Will: Remembering Enslaved Individuals in Rutgers History Jesse Bayker, Christopher Blakley, and Kendra Boyd Chapter 4. “I Hereby Bequeath . . .”: Excavating the Enslaved from the Wills of the Early Leaders of Queen’s College Beatrice Adams and Miya Carey Chapter 5. “And I Poor Slave Yet”: The Precarity of Black Life in New Brunswick, 1766–1835 Shaun Armstead, Brenann Sutter, Pamela Walker, and Caitlin Wiesner Chapter 6. From the Classroom to the American Colonization Society: Making Race at Rutgers Beatrice Adams, Tracey Johnson, Daniel Manuel, and Meagan Wierda Chapter 7. Rutgers: A Land-Grant College in Native American History Kaisha Esty Epilogue: Scarlet in Black—On the Uses of History Jomaira Salas Pujols Acknowledgments Notes List of Contributors ...
