Slave Labor in Board of Trustees Minutes, Vol 3: pages 67-69

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Slave Labor

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In this excerpt from an 1839 meeting, the Board of Trustees discuss hiring a workman to complete needed repairs to some of the college buildings.

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University of Georgia Board of Trustees

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English

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Apprised of the limited financial resources of our University the Committee have not made the foregoing suggestions, with the view of recommending an extensive enlargement of the Library at this time. Their object is respectfully to invite the consideration of the Board to this important subject, with the indulgence of the ..., ... the united reflection of the Board may at no distant day lead to the ... the ways + means, to place our Library on high and respectable ground.
Mr. J.... Harris from the Committee on the College Buildings made the following report which was adopted viz.
Your committee have examined the College Buildings with care + find that the new College Edifice stands in need of some repairs on its exterior, without which they believe it will soon be materially injured. It is also believed that the chapel required some repairs to secure it from further injury + that the cupola should be repainted; your committee would also recommend that the Presidents House be repainted.
Your committee have had under their consideration the necessity + ... of building two Houses near the College Buildings for the use of the Professors as recommended by the President + while they take much pleasure in saying they perfectly accord with the views of the President as to the ability of such buildings they regret they differ with him in the estimated expense, believing that two Houses with their necessary appendages suitable for the proposed purpose cannot be excited for a less sum than from six to seven Thousand Dollars, and believing the limited state of our funds would not authorize such an expenditure at present, regret that they cannot recommend the measure.
Your Committee have examined the rooms of the students + find them generally in an unpleasant situation exhibiting a great want of care and neatness owing mainly as your committee believes to the fact that the students generally change their rooms once a year, by the present mode of distributing them, which have but little inducement to the occupant for so short a time to do much for their improvement or comfort. Your committee would therefore beg have to offer the following Resolutions.
Resolved that the Prudential Committee be directed without delay, to employ a suitable workman to repair the outside of the new college building in such manner as they may deem most proper and also procure a painter + have the Presidents House and the Chapel cupola repainted.
Resolved that the Faculty will so arrange it in future, that the students in the distribution of their rooms retain them during their college course except good cause be shown, why a change should be made, of which the Faculty shall be the judge.
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Handwritten Minutes

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University of Georgia Board of Trustees, “Slave Labor in Board of Trustees Minutes, Vol 3: pages 67-69,” African American Experience in Athens, accessed October 3, 2023, https://digihum.libs.uga.edu/items/show/139.

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