​The Hallowed Grounds Project: Race, Slavery and Memory at the University of Alabama



Actively researching since early Spring 2015, this page contains some but not all of my campus history research. This page highlights visualizations, transcriptions, primary sources, and other materials for understanding the history of slavery at the University of Alabama and its legacy. It is designed to provide individuals who have completed one of the Hallowed Ground alternate campus tours with expanded opportunities for exploration. It is for current students, alumni and staff who want to deepen their understanding on this underappreciated campus history as well as educators who want to enrich their courses. More importantly, it is a resource for descendants grappling with this complicated history, other institutions engaged in similar projects, scholars and all other interested life-long learners.

To learn more, see the current site here (archived site via Internet Archive Wayback Machine). An Omeka-S site is in the works. 
https://web.archive.org/web/20231112195540/https://hgreen.people.ua.edu/hallowed-grounds-project.html.

​Google My Map version: Hallowed Grounds Tour (2020)
Created by Hilary N. Green, this tour seeks to shed light onto the lives, experiences, and legacy of the many enslaved men, women, and children who lived, worked, and even died at the University of Alabama, 1829-1865. This is a Google My Maps of the version of the full tour and updates the printable version created in 2016. At a leisurely pace, it takes about 90 minutes to visit the sites of slavery and its complex legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and Civil Rights Movement.

Adobe Spark version: Hallowed Grounds Tours
Created by Hilary N. Green using Adobe Spark, this is device friendly version of the shortened alternative campus tour designed for classes (50 minute or 75 minute) and Black History Month. At a leisurely pace, it takes about 45-60 minutes.

Hallowed Grounds Project Publications: 
  • “The Slave Cemetery and Apology Marker at the University of Alabama,” in Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves, ed. Brian Jordan and Jonathan White, 248-256. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2023.
  • Co-authored and edited with Adam Domby, “Studying Slavery on Campus: Research, Reconciliation, and Public Engagement,” a JCWE roundtable, Journal of Civil War Era 13, no. 2 (June 2023): 155-177.
  • Co-authored with Nishani Frazier and Christy Hyman, "Black is Not the Absence of Light: Restoring Visibility and Liberation to Digital Humanities,” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, ed. Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein, 140-165. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 
  • “The Hallowed Grounds Tour: Revising and Reimagining Landscapes of Race and Slavery at the University of Alabama,” in Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas, eds. Thaisa Way and Eric Avila, 297-323. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Press, Trustees for Harvard University, 2023.
  • “2. Shifting Landscapes and the Monument Removal Craze, 2015-2020,” in Remembering Wrongs in Public Space: Forum in Reaction to the Toppling of Edward Colston in Bristol, June 2020, Patterns of Prejudice 54, no. 5 (August 2021): 485-491.
  • "'What, then is the Church?': A Path Forward for Columbia Seminary and Its Slave Past," Repair roundtable forum, @This Point: Theological Investigations in Church and Culture 14, no 1 (Spring 2020). 
  • "The Burden of the University of Alabama's Hallowed Grounds," The Public Historian ​42, no. 4 (November 2020): 28-40. 
  • “University of Alabama Civil War Monument - UDC Boulder,” entry with interpretative essay, Commemorative Cultures: A University of St. Andrews Project, The American Civil War Monuments Database, edited by Jill Caddell, Kristin Treen and Alan Miller, (2022), https://www.civilwarmonuments.org/.

Multimedia Presentations: 
  • Dr. Hilary N. Green and Dr. Beth Harris, "Slave Burial Ground, University of Alabama," a Seeing America video, in Smarthistory, September 29, 2021.
  • Dr. Hilary N. Green and Dr. Steve Zucker, "Slavery at the West Point of the Confederacy," a Seeing America video, in Smarthistory, July 2, 2021. 
  • Discussant, “Barnes, Washington and the University of Alabama: Recreating a 1910 Event For Understanding the Afterlives of Slavery in the 21st Century,” a CARI-Vann Professor of Ethics in Society collaboration, virtual Zoom webinar due to COVID-19, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, April 16, 2021.  
  • Held at Davidson College via Zoom on April 16, 2021, the "Barnes, Washington and the University of Alabama: Recreating a 1910 Event for Understanding the Afterlives of Slavery" showcases a collaborative project recreating the 1910 speech given by Booker T. Washington in Tuscaloosa at the invitation of a former enslaved campus-laborer turned educator. The event will feature a short film of excerpts from the speech, and two music selections originally performed and a conversation between Hilary Green and three of the project collaborators - Luvada Harrison, Assistant Professor and CARI Fellow, University of Alabama, Alexis Davis-Hazell, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama and Earl Hazell, singing actor, composer/arranger and producer.

​Project hashtag: #slaveryua

Colleges and Universities Studying Slavery: A Curated Bibliography

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