Clemson University TigerPrints Publications English 11-2006 "Don't You Mean 'Slaves,' Not 'Servants'?": Literary and Institutional Texts for an Interdisciplinary Classroom Susanna Ashton Clemson University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/english_pubs Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Ashton, Susanna. 2006. "Texts of Our Institutional Lives: Don't You Mean 'Slaves,' Not 'Servants'?": Literary and Institutional Texts for an Interdisciplinary Classroom". College English. 69 (2): 156-172. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in Publications by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 156 WTexts of Our Institutional JL Lives: "Don't You Mean 'Slaves/ Not 'Servants'?": Literary and Institu an tional Texts for Interdisciplinary Classroom Susanna Ashton a Editor's Note: This article begins semiregular feature in which contributors analyze "texts" that fig ure course in the daily lives of college English teachers: e.g., syllabi, descriptions, administrative decrees, are departmental bylaws, college Web sites. Your proposals invited. Here, Susanna Ashton describes how on undergraduates in her class representations of slavery studied the words, sounds, and images they a on encountered at historical site her campus: the former slave plantation of leading antebellum racist on John C. Calhoun. She also analyzes how her school depicts this site theWeb. In effect, she raises the issue of how any college might teach about ignoble aspects of its past. I teach at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, a fairly large pub are a lic research university with a land-grant mission.