Stone memorializing Jonathan Edwards
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Edwards, Jonathan
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Stone memorializing Jonathan Edwards
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The “Walk of Fame” was created in 1929 by then-president Hamilton Holt to honor significant historical figures. The memorial is located in the center of campus around Mills Lawn.
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a theologian and scholar and a part of a religious movement known as the "Great Awakening." Believing in a strict racial hierachy, he saw slavery as a civilizing agent. Edwards owned slaves. His first slave was a teenaged girl whom he named Venus. He also held a child named Titus, two women, named Rose and Leah, and a married couple. As he became older, he saw more problems with the slave trade, but he never fully abandoned his support of the institution.
His stone was placed in the walk of fame on Mills Lawn in 1929 when the Walk of Fame was established.
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2x1 stone
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Jonathan Edwards
Stockbridge
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Holt, Hamilton
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October 1929
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