Southern Baptist Seminary was built almost entirely on slave-labor wealth

Evidence

Nearly all of the initial South Carolina funds were provided from the proceeds of slave labor: James P. Boyce, who subsequently became a faculty member in theology and chairman of the faculty, tapped his family’s plantation fortune, which alone provided nearly 70,000; another 26,000 came from the prominent slaveholding Richard Furman family. For his efforts, Manly was elected the founding president of the Southern Baptist Seminary’s board of trustees, a position he held for the seminary’s first critical decade leading up to and through the Civil War (1859–1868), and his son Basil Manly Jr. was named a founding faculty member in the area of the Old Testament. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 106

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Concrete instance where an enduring institution was literally funded by proceeds of coerced labor/human sacrifice economy.
• QUESTION: Could chase further: what does Southern Seminary currently do to acknowledge its slave-labor founding endowment?
• XREF: connects to: The Southern Baptist Convention was founded specifically to defend slaveholding Christianity. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 17; Southern churches and slaveholding plantations were established together by the same families — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 529; Wealthy Southern family fortunes rested on unacknowledged enslaved labor — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 490

Broader Connections

• Wealthy Southern family fortunes rested on unacknowledged enslaved labor #expands (0.80) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 490
• The Southern Baptist Convention was founded specifically to defend slaveholding Christianity. #expands (0.75) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 17
• Southern churches and slaveholding plantations were established together by the same families #expands (0.70) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 529