University of Georgia's Confederate and Slavery Connections-- Part 1: Slaves Once Worked on Campus

From the Red & Black, University of Georgia student newspaper, "Before Holmes and Hunter:  Students look at UGA's history of segregation and slavery" by Hannah Echols.

Many think that the University of Georgia's black history began with the entrance of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, the first blacks to enroll at the school in 1961.

But black history goes back to the school's earliest days.  Enslaved people played a pivotal role in the building and maintaining of the campus.  They stoked fires, carried water, rang the chapel bell and constructed buildings.  The only time they were allowed on campus, however, was to perform prescribed duties, then they had to leave.

--Old Secesh