This is pretty cool. An effort to document quaint memorials from bygone days we’d rather not think about too much.

«The experiment failed because the students rebelled against farming fields side by side with enslaved labor and burned down the institution, killing a fellow student. This granite slab represents a failed institutional landscape of White privileged sons refusing to engage in farm labor. During discussions of moving the institution in the 1840s, future president McGlothlin stated the necessary move to a location with a “larger proportion of white people.” The institute would move to Greenville in 1850.»

https://locatinglegacies.org/s/hub/item/566

Would be neat to see this database expanded.

(via https://mastodon.social/@anterotesis/114875168821388417, boosted by @BRMiller@historians.social)