Loading...
Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School
Moretti-Langholtz, Danielle Woodard, Buck
Moretti-Langholtz, Danielle
Woodard, Buck
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
Description
Date
2018-01-01
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary
Collections
Download Dataset
Files
Embargo
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Keywords
Citation
Advisor
Department
Anthropology