Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1-2024

Abstract

The article provides a model for other southern colleges and universities founded during the Civil War era to clarify how they, too, benefited from the slave economy. It describes how Trinity University's founders were able to accomplish their institution's unlikely survival and enrich their own positions by creating a valuable new educational commodity. It also explores the historiography of nineteenth-century higher education.

Identifier

85198733305 (Scopus)

DOI

10.1353/soh.2024.a932553

ISSN

00224642

Publication Information

Journal of Southern History

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