The second volume in the series, this book details race and gender in the context of African American history at Rutgers University. History students and faculty from Rutgers and elsewhere provide five chapters that trace the history of race and African Americans at the university from 1865 to 1945, including the stories of two African American men who entered the New Brunswick Theological Seminary as the first black students of the institution, Islay Walden and John Bergen; African American life and labor in New Brunswick from the end of slavery to the industrial era; the first black men and women to matriculate at Rutgers; and Julia and Malcolm Baxter, who were among the first African Americans to attend the school. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume 2, continues to document the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. This second of a planned three volumes continues the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes: an introduction to the period studied (from the end of the Civil War through WWII) by Deborah Gray White; a study of the first black students at Rutgers and New Brunswick Theological Seminary; an analysis of African-American life in the City of New Brunswick during the period; and profiles of the earliest black women to matriculate at Douglass College.
To learn more about the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History, visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu
Scarlet and Black, Volume Two continues the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes an introduction to the period from the end of the Civil War through WWII , a study of the first black students at Rutgers and New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and profiles of the earliest black women to matriculate at Douglass College.
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Introduction
Deborah Gray White
Chapter 1:
All the Worlds A Classroom: The First Black Students at Rutgers College
and New Brunswick Theological Seminary Encounter Racial Ideology,
Missionary Impulses and the Intellectual Life of the University
Tracey Johnson, Eri Kitada, Meagan Wierda, and Joseph Williams
Chapter 2:
In the Shadow of Old Queens: African American Life and Labors in New
Brunswick from the End of Slavery to the Industrial Era
Caitlin Wiesner, Pamela Walker, Brenann Sutter, and Shari Cunningham
Chapter 3:
The Rutgers Race Man: Early Black Students at Rutgers College
Beatrice J. Adams, Shauni Armstead, Shari Cunningham, Tracey Johnson
Chapter 4:
Profiles in Courage: Breaking the Color Line at Douglass College
Miya Carey and Pamela Walker
Chapter 5:
Race as Reality and Illusion: The Baxter Cousins, NJC and Rutgers
University
Shaun Armstead and Jerrad P. Pacatte
Epilogue
Deborah Gray White
KENDRA BOYD is an assistant professor of history at York University. MARISA J. FUENTES is an associate professor in womens and gender studies and history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She was recently appointed presidential term chair in African American history. She is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive.
DEBORAH GRAY WHITE is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author or editor of numerous books including, Arnt I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South.
