Several buildings on the uof6c campus are steeped in racism...

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Rutledge College - Named after John Rutledge. John Rutledge was one of very few of our founding fathers in support of slavery and was a slave holder himself. He was an "American legislator who, as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, strongly supported the protection of slavery.

DeSaussure College (1809) - Named after Henry William DeSaussure. DeSaussure and his brother-in-law, Timothy Ford, were powerful Charleston lawyers and of course owned many slaves. Writing under the pseudonym "Phocian," DeSaussure argued that equality as a natural condition would lead inevitably to emancipation and that "inevitable ruin would follow both to the whites and blacks, and this fine country would be deluged with blood, and desolated by fire and sword." In locating slavery within a network of unequal relations, Ford and DeSaussure were able to defend it as a positive good, and argue for its necessity for freedom and independence" Talk about a thinking that set South Carolina back 50 years.

McCutchen House (1813) - It is named for Professor George McCutchen, who lived in the house from 1915 to World War II. In this case it cannot be proven that this house was named after a racist but instead we find that it actually housed slaves!!! During the Horseshoe renovation project in the 1970s, evidence of slave quarters were found on the third floor.

The Drayton Hall Theater - Named for Governor John Drayton, who founded South Carolina College in 1801. His family owned Magnolia Plantation near Charleston which was built by slaves. The Drayton Hall Theater which is part of Uof6c college of education is named for him.

The Sims College - Names after James Marion Sims who used slaves as experimental subjects. Sims operated on at least 10 slave women (some on multiple occasions) from about 1845 to 1849 without anesthesia (although anesthesia was available)

Heck, the school even owned salves. In 1816, the board of trustees approved the purchase of one slave to work exclusively for the college. The college purchased Jack for $900.

In addition to Jack, many other hired-out slaves worked on campus at this time. Various building contractors and the steward hired the majority of these slaves. Contractors used slave labor to make bricks, build fences, and to construct and maintain the college buildings and grounds. The steward supervised slaves working in Stewards Hall. Records dating from November 1816 indicate that the steward employed fifteen slaves who produced, prepared, and served student meals. This group included a butcher, a baker, four female kitchen workers, a wagon driver, and two additional laborers who “cut wood, [worked] in the garden, and [went] to the mills.” The steward hired additional slaves to make students’ beds and sweep the tenements and public spaces. In addition to paying for tuition and board, students paid an annual fee to defray the cost of hiring and caring for the slaves who performed these services.

I won’t even get into $CU closing its doors in the late 1800's rather than admit black students as mandated by reconstruction.

The very nickname of their entire sports department is derived from a slave owner. Thomas Sumter the “Carolina Gamecock”.

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Several buildings on the uof6c campus are steeped in racism...

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