In the last several decades, many excellent historic narratives surrounding the Williamsburg Bray School have been written. However, only a few academic works center the voices of those who daily experienced the classroom. This thesis attempts to recenter the voices of Black students who have long been silenced within the archive of the Associates of Dr. Bray. In this work, I expand upon a methodological approach to studying primary sources that pushes against silences in the records of the Bray Associates. I also use the work of historical theorists such as Saidiya Hartman, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Antonio T. Bly, and Marisa J. Fuentes to address how scholars might reckon with both archival silence and historical imagining connected to the Williamsburg Bray School.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:wm.edu/oai:scholarworks.wm.edu:etd-7272 |
| Date | 01 January 2022 |
| Creators | Brown, Nicole Catherine Nioma |
| Publisher | W&M ScholarWorks |
| Source Sets | William and Mary |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects |
| Rights | © The Author, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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