Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School

Authors

Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, William & Mary - Muscarelle Museum of ArtFollow
Buck Woodard, William & Mary - Muscarelle Museum of Art

Files

Document Type

Book

Department/Program

Anthropology

Publication Date

2018

Role

Editors: Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Buck Woodard.

Publisher

Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary

City

Williamsburg, VA

Abstract

Excerpt from the publication: "Cloaked in the academic regalia of the early history of the College of William & Mary, the story of the founding of Virginia’s Indian school is replete with ecclesiastical and political intrigue as well as financial opacity. Embedded within the seventeenth and eighteenth-century trans-Atlantic colonial encounter, the 1723 Brafferton Indian School building is an artifact with a pedigree worthy of heritage status. However, its origins remain murky; its history is buried in the faded and fragmentary ledger books, legislative acts and church correspondence of the era. One of three structures on William & Mary’s historic campus, the Brafferton is part of a built environment that remains a strong visual symbol of imperial England’s former hegemony in North America and Williamsburg’s continued affirmation of its positionality within this colonial history..."

Contributers: Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Buck Woodard, Aaron H. De Groft, W. Taylor Reveley III, Ashley Atkins Spivey, Edward Chappell, Audrey Horning, Susan Kern, Mark Kostro, Alexandra Martin, Stephanie Pratt, Dylan Ruediger, Sydney Stewart, Michaela Wright

Publication Statement

© 2018 Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary. All rights reserved.

Recommended Citation

Moretti-Langholtz, Danielle and Woodard, Buck. "Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School" (2018). Williamsburg, VA: Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/asbook/49