The Emory University

The underpinnings of “Slavery and the University” are Emory’s own historical ties to slavery, established when the college was founded in Oxford, Georgia in 1836. One of the organizers of the conference and the community research fellow at TCP, Melissa Sexton, concedes that “history has shown that a lot of the people in and around Oxford College were slaveholders and it looks like some of the buildings were built by slave labor.” Join the conversation!