"Human Taken in Payment for College Building"

"Human Taken in Payment for College Building"

Anderson, Joe
Mars Hill College--History
Slavery

This is an article that tells the Joe Anderson story and describes the ceremony that honored him in October, 1932 when his ashes were dug up and moved to the Mars Hill College campus and reburied with a granite marker.

The Charlotte Observer

Mars Hill College Records - A, Box 1

Southern Appalachian Archives, Liston B. Ramsey Center for Appalachian Studies, Mars Hill University

1932-11-27

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Mars Hill, North Carolina

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