Joe Madison interviews Washington University Professor Carl Craver and student Adam Teich about the course Rethinking Wash U's Relation to Enslavement: Past, Present, and Future," and how student research is revealing stories of WashU founders immersed in slaveholding.
Listen to the January 4, 2022 episode "Rethinking Washington University's Relation to Enslavement."
Pictured: Wayman Crow, 1850 U.S. Federal Census -Slave Schedules, St. Louis 4th Ward; Wayman Crow, Steel Engraving by Samuel Sartain, 1883. Courtesy of Missouri Historical Society. Photo composite by Ian Lanius. This image is part of "Counter/Narratives: (Re)Presenting Race & Ethnicity," an exhibition at Olin Library from January 18 - July 18, 2022, which examines how counter-narratives emerge through contemporary artwork and critical interpretation of historic objects. Click here to learn more.
