William Jewell Has Two Groups Doing Slavery Research. Some Say That’s a Problem
The William Jewell College campus is shown here April 22. Researchers at the college have determined that enslaved people contributed to building Jewell Hall (Zach Bauman/The Beacon).
William Jewell College brands itself as “The Critical Thinking College.”
Three “key questions” are central to the curriculum of the Liberty, Missouri, institution: What is real? What can we know? How should we live?
But as a student- and faculty-led group called the Slavery, Memory and Justice Project applied critical thinking skills to a study of the college’s slaveholding founders, members have fe…
