Susanna Ashton
2 articles-
Texts of Our Institutional Lives: “Don’t You Mean ‘Slaves,’ Not ‘Servants’?: Literary and Institutional Texts for an Interdisciplinary Classroom ↗
Abstract
The author describes an undergraduate course she taught on “Representations of Slavery.” In particular, she explains how the course involved studying an historic site on her university’s campus: the former slave plantation of leading segregationist John C. Calhoun. She also analyzes how her school represents the site on its Web pages.