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Before Faulkner: Research details lives of enslaved people from the 1860s

New research has revealed details of the lives of enslaved people that lived at Rowan Oak, which would later become the home of writer William Faulkner. The findings are a result of

September 11, 2019

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‘Into the narrative’: The Slave Dwelling Project gives voice to Rowan Oak’s forgotten enslaved people

Last Wednesday, I, along with a group of students from Anne Twitty’s and Paul Polgar’s classes about the history of race in America, attended a special program that explored the experiences of

April 10, 2019

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A genealogist’s discovery: ‘Ventress owned my family’

James Alexander Ventress, the namesake of Ventress Hall on the University of Mississippi’s campus, authored the bill to establish the university in 1840. He was also a slave owner. Nicka Sewell-Smith, a

October 11, 2018

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Visiting professor to deliver lecture on ‘The Bell Witch of Mississippi’

Amy Fluker, visiting assistant professor of history, will deliver a lecture titled “The Bell Witch of Mississippi: Slavery and the Supernatural” at noon today in the Faulkner Room of the J.D. Williams Library.

October 31, 2017

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