Photo courtesy: Ken Clark via The Washington Post.
Honors College Interim Assistant Dean Bethany Pace‘s family history is deeply entwined in embattled Sweet Briar College’s past and is the subject of a recent Washington Post article by Susan Svrluga.
As Svrluga’s article says, Pace “didn’t go to school there. She doesn’t have children there. But her heart seized up because of what Sweet Briar means to her family: The college was built on the grounds of the plantation where her great-great-grandparents were slaves.”
The article parallels the Fletcher family and its relationship with its slaves and the larger story of American history pre- and post-Civil War: the rise of slavery, abolitionism, Reconstruction and the Great Migration.
