367 The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In 1693, King William III and Queen Mary II of England granted a royal charter for two institutions of higher education in the Colony of Virginia. The first institution was the College of William & Mary. The second institution was the Indian School at William & Mary, known from 1723 to the present as the Brafferton Indian School. The history of the Brafferton Indian School is a story of power, trade, land, and culture. It’s an Indigenous story. It’s also a story of English, later British, colonialism. Over the next two episodes, we will investigate the Brafferton Indian School and the stories it tells about power, trade, land, culture, and colonialism in early America. We’ll also explore the legacy of the Brafferton and other colonial Indian schools by examining the connections between these schools and the creation of the Indian Boarding Schools that operated within the United States between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. In this episode, we focus on the history and origins of the Brafferton Indian School. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/367 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 104: Andrew Lipman, The Saltwater Frontier: Native Americans and Colonists on the Northeastern Coast 🎧 Episode 132: Coll Thrush, Indigenous London 🎧 Episode 171: Jessica Stern, Native Americans, British Colonists, and Trade in North America 🎧 Episode 290: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 1: Before 1620 🎧 Episode 291: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 2: 1620 and Beyond 🎧 Episode 310: Rosalyn LaPier, History of the Blackfeet 🎧 Episode 314: Colin Calloway, Native Americans in Early American Cities 🎧 Episode 353: Brooke Bauer, Women and the Making of Catawba Identity REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter👩‍💻 BFW Listener Community🌍 The History Explorers Club LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios, and this
0:05.1	episode was produced with the support of William & Mary and the American Indian initiative
0:10.1	at Colonial Williamsburg.
0:11.6	People's visibility, it's almost been wiped completely clean of indigeneity, so that
0:25.6	the Braffordin stands today as kind of a silent sentinel for Native people's positionality
0:33.2	in this history, and as a reminder of the importance of Native people's to the development
0:40.0	of Virginia and eventually of America, the Braffordin really does stand as a visual reminder
0:48.1	that Native peoples are a part of society, both in the past and continuing to the present.
0:59.3	When you visit William & Mary's historic university campus in downtown Williamsburg, Virginia,
1:04.3	you will notice three old brick buildings.
1:07.2	The most prominent building is the Sir Christopher Ren building, the oldest college building in
1:11.6	the United States.
1:13.6	Designed by the famed English architect, Sir Christopher Ren, and built between 1695 and
1:18.6	1700, the Ren building once served as the College of William & Mary's soul school building.
1:24.4	It housed college classrooms, the boys dormitory, the school library, rooms for the school's
1:29.0	president and professors, and the college's dining hall.
1:32.9	In its earliest days, students and faculty simply referred to the Ren building as The College.
1:39.5	To the right and left of the Ren building, stand two other brick buildings.
1:43.2	The building to the right is the youngest building on William & Mary's historic quadrangle.
1:47.8	Built between 1732 and 1733, the president's house serves as the oldest official residence
1:54.0	for a college president in the United States.
1:57.2	And directly across from the president's house stands the Braffordin building.
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