Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Invisible Workers
Chapter 2. Family Origins, 1685–1810
Chapter 3. Virginian Slavery, 1811–1830
Chapter 4. Survival Strategies, 1831–1857
Chapter 5. Families Divided, 1858–1865
Chapter 6. Freedom Communities, 1866–1883
Chapter 7. Mourning the Dead, 1884–1900
Chapter 8. Forgotten Founders, 1901–2001
Chapter 9. Commemorating Founders

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Lynn Rainville is Director of Institutional History and Professor of Anthropology at Washington and Lee University and former Dean of Sweet Briar College.. For over two decades she has studied the lives of exceptional, yet overlooked, Americans. This work has been supported by numerous grants and she has written five books (on Mesopotamian houses, African American cemeteries, Sweet Briar College, and Virginia’s role in World War I). She directs the Tusculum Institute for local history and historic preservation at Sweet Briar College.

Reviews

“Invisible Founders is a different kind of history of the university and the Black past than most of those published in the past few years, but that is one that has much to offer individuals who are working to bring this history to light at their own institutions.” • Journal of Southern History