The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation is hosted a Brown Bag Lunch entitled “Baldwin Hall Present and Future.” at the Lyndon House. It’s aimed at continuing the conversation on the slave remains found on the University of Georgia campus. A panel of speakers from Athens organizations and UGA discussed the issue and answered questions from those attending.
Kimberly Davis is a trustee with the ACHF.
“Hopefully your listeners already know about Baldwin Hall at the University of Georgia, where during excavation in 2015 they discovered slave remains, “Davis said. “We know that there are still remains under that building.”
Davis says she would like to see a memorial dedicated to the slaves on campus who helped build the university.
“What I would like to see is the university establish a commission on slavery, to study it, to bring it out to light. When you have a confederate monument on Broad Street why can’t we have a memorial to the slaves on campus.
The native Athenian would like to see DNA testing.
“We won’t know until they decide to let us test our DNA against the remains that they have found, if our family members are under there, and there are some that we’ll never be able to get samples from.
A portion of the documentary, “Below Baldwin,” was scheduled to be screened at the event. The Brown Bag Lunch at the Lyndon House Arts Center is open to the public.
