Early History of Wake Forest College, 1830-1899

Institutional Records

Manuscript Collections

Calvin Jones Papers Digital Collection, 1820-1835 (physical collection available via UNC)
David L. Smiley Papers (MS572)
- David L. Smiley digital collection
Ephemera Collection (MS880)
George William Bagby Collection (MS884)
James Simpson Purefoy Papers (MS93)
John Brown White Papers (MS164)
- John Brown White digital collection
John Charles McNeill Papers (MS204)
Lipe Family Civil War Letters (MS575)
- Lipe Family Civil War digital collection
Oscar Fitz Allen Baxter Autobiography (MS440)
Samuel and Sarah Wait Papers (MS117)
- Samuel and Sarah Wait digital collection
University and N.C. Baptist Biographical Files Collection (MS615)
- University and N.C. Baptist Biographical Files digital collection
Walter Eugene Daniel Papers (MS4)
Wendell Randolph Grigg, Sr. Papers (MS360)
William Boling Dunn, Senior, Papers (MS34)
William Crenshaw Papers (MS25)
- William Crenshaw digital collection
William Tell Brooks Papers (MS12)
Wilson-Sloan Family Papers (MS208)

Oral Histories, Interviews, and Essays

Bibliography

Not all published materials are listed here. Please search our catalog for more materials on enslavement and enslaved peoples.

American Anti-Slavery Society. The American anti-slavery almanac. Boston: Webster & Southard, 1835.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, 1836-1845.
Bailey, Anne C. The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Benezet, Anthony and John Wesley. Views of American slavery: taken a century ago. Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1858.
Billingsley, William J. Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Byrd, W. Carson. Poison in the Ivy: Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017.
Capps, Mathew. “Study of the Built Landscape of the Original Campus of Wake Forest University” (2019)
Channing, William Ellery. Slavery. Boston: James Munroe and Co. 1836.
Chafe, William H. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Dalton, Mary M., and Susan Faust. I’m Not My Brother’s Keeper: Leadership and Civil Rights in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Wake Forest University, 2001.
Feldman, Glenn. Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
Fuente, Alejandro de la and Ariela J. Gross. Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Studies in Legal History). Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Harris, Leslie M. “Higher Education’s Reckoning with Slavery,” American Association of University Professors. Winter 2020.
Kean, Melissa. Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Lane, Lunsford. The narrative of Lunsford Lane: formerly of Raleigh, N.C., embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery, and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin. 1848.
Macaulay, Zachary. Negro slavery: or, A view of some of the more prominent features of that state of society, as it exists in the United States of America and in the colonies of the West Indies, especially in Jamaica. 1823.
Malburne-Wade, Meredith, “Summary of ‘Slaves and Free Persons of Color. An Act Concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color,'” North Carolina General Assembly, 1831.
McLeod, G. Bryan. Making History: February 23, 1960, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University, 2000.
McMinnis, Maurie D. and Louis P. Nelson, Editors. Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University. University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Mell, P. H. Slavery: a treatise, showing that slavery is neither a moral, political, nor social evil. 1844.
Moore, Winfred B., Jr., Kyle S. Sinisi, and David H. White, Jr., Editors. Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
National Democratic Union Club. African slavery regarded from an unusual stand-point : territorial abstractions ignored as now immaterial, and a more radical issue raised. 1860.
Paschal, George Washington. The History of Wake Forest University, vol. 1-3. Wake Forest, NC: Wake Forest College, 1935.
Presbyterian Church in Connecticut. General Association. Committee on the Sin of Slavery. Minority report of a committee of the General Association of Connecticut, on the sin of slavery: Presented, June 1849, at the meeting of the Association, at Salisbury, Conn.
“Slave Narratives in ZSR Special Collections,” subject guide, 2020.
Smith, Christi M. Reparation and Reconciliation: The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education. University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Torrey, Jesse. A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States. 1817.
Wachs, Ronald, “(Duty) Against Family: A Vermont Minister Adopts a Slave State,” Vermont History: Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society, vol. 41, no. 1 (1973 Winter)
Wallenstein, Peter. Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.
Washington, Booker T. Up from slavery: an autobiography. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901.
Wesley, John. Thoughts upon slavery. 1774.

Last updated June 2022.