Locating Slavery's Legacies @ Sewanee: The University of the South

Memorial Artwork

Temporary Installation

Emancipationist

Gailor, Thomas Frank

duPont, Jessie Ball

Elliott, Stephen

Quintard, Charles Todd

Walsh, Vincent

Gorgas, Josiah

Let's Talk Poster series identifying subjects memorialized by buildings of the University of the South

In the spring and fall 2021, the Order of the Gown in conjunction with the Roberson Project placed a series of “Let’s Talk” posters in various campus buildings to encourage discussion of The University of the South’s building names associated with the Lost Cause: duPont Library honoring mid-twentieth-century segregationist Jessie Ball duPont; Quintard dormitory honoring enslaver and Confederate military chaplain Charles Todd Quintard; Elliott dormitory honoring enslaver and pro-slavery advocate Stephen Elliott; Walsh Ellett Hall honoring enslaver and Confederate military veteran Vincent Walsh; Gorgas dormitory honoring enslaver and Confederate military officer Josiah Gorgas and his son William C. Gorgas; and Gailor Hall honoring Lost Cause proponent Thomas Frank Gailor.

Gold and purple posters with a photograph of memorialized subject in the upper right corner.

Order of the Gown

Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation

2021

2000-Present: Confederate Memorialization in the Era of Universities Studying Slavery and the Black Lives Matter Movement

Order of the Gown

Roberson Project

University of the South; Sewanee, Tennessee

Resistance Act

Let's Talk poster duPont Library

Let's Talk poster Walsh Ellett Hall

Let's Talk poster Quintard Hall

Let's Talk poster Gorgas Hall

Let's Talk poster Elliott Hall

Let's Talk poster Gailor Hall

Removed Portraits: Sword Over the Gown