In the 21st century, many American colleges are reckoning with their past and how they’ve benefited from the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The second-oldest higher-learning institution, William & Mary, has been a trailblazer as faculty and students have worked to acknowledge the school’s past. The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation and the Committee on Memorialization set out to confront how the university exploited the labor of enslaved people and upheld the subjugation of marginalized communities into the Jim Crow era. The Lemon Project led the charge to construct the Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved as a means of making the university’s dark past as visible as the buildings enslaved hands helped to create.
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