Locating Slavery's Legacies @ University of Virginia

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• Methodist Episcopal Church, South

  Indicates a person who belonged to and served in any capacity in the denomination formed by southern members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844-46 over the issues related to slavery.

• "Ghost Site"

  A memorial with this tag concerns universities or colleges that have relocated from an original or earlier site. The buildings and other structures on the earlier campus may or may not survive but typically no longer have an official role in the functioning of the contemporary university or college. However, they may serve in some way as memorials to the relocated university or college and thereby preserve links to the legacies of slavery.

• Altered - Renamed

  A memorial with this tag has been officially renamed by the institution.

• Altered - Moved

  A memorial with this tag has been moved from its original location to a new site of interpretation.

• Altered - Destroyed

  A memorial with this tag has been partially or completely destroyed.

• Resistance Act

  This tag is attached to memorials that have had some form of resistance done to them. For example: the hanging of a Black Lives Matter flag on a Confederate memorial to advocate its removal.