Emory’s Pitts Theology Library is part of a network of institutions restoring and mapping a forgotten African American cemetery in Greene County, as well as creating an archive for Georgia’s historic rural churches.
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Around the country, colleges and universities are beginning to work through their historical relationships to the institution of slavery. Sometimes the history is well documented, even if ignored. In other cases, the connection between higher learning and slavery requires some detective work.