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- Title
Reconstruction, Public Memory, and the Making of Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation.
- Authors
Thomas, Rhondda Robinson
- Abstract
The article discusses public memory the founding of Clemson University, particularly concerning the significance of Confederate allegiance on the part of its founder, Thomas Green Clemson, and several of its early professors and trustees, and their actions during Reconstruction. It also examines the fact of Clemson's location on the plantation of U.S. senator John C. Calhoun, Fort Hill in South Carolina, and the exploitation of slaves there.
- Subjects
SOUTH Carolina; UNITED States; CLEMSON University; RECONSTRUCTION (U.S. history, 1865-1877); CLEMSON, Thomas Green, 1807-1888; COLLECTIVE memory; FORT Hill Plantation (S.C.)
- Publication
American Literary History, 2018, Vol 30, Issue 3, p584
- ISSN
0896-7148
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/alh/ajy024