The seminary founder’s son fantasized about clearing freed slaves out of town

Evidence

The report documents the white supremacist views of Basil Manly Jr., son of the seminary’s founding president, and his desire to reestablish white political control during Reconstruction. Writing to his wife, Sarah, after the Civil War, for example, Manly Jr. declared that the presence of freed slaves was an “incubus and plague” upon Greenville, and that it “might become a desirable place of residence” if it “could be cleared of negroes and establish a system of free schools.” — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 171