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Slavery and The University

Andrews jr., Rod. Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915. University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC. 2001.

Domby, Adam H. The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2020.

Egerton, Douglas R. He Shall Go out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1999.

Egerton, Douglas R., Robert L. Paquette. The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017.

Harley, Al B. 'The South Carolina Journey: Military Academy and the War Between the States.' The Journal of the Confederate Historical Society of England. Vol. 10, 4. Winter, 1973.

This rare journal was created by a Confederate Historical Society in England, and gives a preview into the history of the Citadel. While being written several decades after many of the works featured in 'Founding Narratives', it is very explicit in connecting slavery and nullifcation leading to the foundation of the school. It also discusses the events of and leading upto the Civil War, the role that the Citadel cadets had in starting the civil war, and as well as creating the Confederate States.

Kytle, Ethan J., and Blain Roberts. Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy. New York, NY: The New Press, 2018.