Roanoke College
Roanoke College
Roanoke College offers a walking tour that traces aspects of the history of enslavement at and around the Roanoke College campus. For full tour details click HERE or on the map below.
Roanoke College also has a memorial installed and dedicated in 2025, “Authors and Architects,” which honors the lives of enslaved people who shaped the college’s history.
The memorial is the result of years of research and collaboration undertaken to gain a fuller understanding of the college's past. Student researchers scoured archives to create an extensive, first-of-its-kind record of enslaved people who lived and labored across the region. The identities of those with ties to the college’s earliest years and benefactors are now permanently recognized on the contours of “Authors and Architects,” a bronze sculpture cast in the image of record books used in the research initiative.
Designed by Richmond-based artist Sandy Williams IV, the memorial stands on campus as a powerful testament to the strength and legacy of the people that it honors.
