SLAVERY: Names, Images, & Likeness, The Catastrophic Unpaid Debt of CLEMSON UNIVERSITY.
Since successfully linking together the lineage connections of my family & discovering my ancestors lost history, for the past four years I’ve been telling all those who have been paying attention that Clemson University did not have much of a storied Slave history without the boisterous and extremely captivating tales of my ancestors sacrifices.
The disturbing stories of my ancestors past while enslaved at Clemson is even more disheartening once you consider that Clemson University has generated hundreds of millions of dollars throughout the years using the NAMES, IMAGES, and LIKENESS of my family of ancestors at Fort Hill Plantation which still stands on the grounds of Clemson University.
(Pictured above) Featured on the cover of a Clemson University magazine, my 105-year old great-grandmother Nancy Washington Legree, who was the hidden daughter of United States of America, Vice President John C. Calhoun.
(Pictured above) On another Clemson University publication, a picture of my grandmother Nancy Washington Legree, standing on the porch of Fort Hill plantation, while Clemson University founder Thomas Green Clemson comfortably relaxes under a tree on the lawn. Nancy Calhoun was my grandmother’s maiden name prior to her being married.
Just as you would expect, Clemson University has failed to accept any accountability for the UNIVERSITY holding my family of ancestors enslaved for at least half a century past emancipation. Consequently, Clemson University has never given back anything the enormous profits that were originally gained from slavery. Much of the comforts and conveniences that were enjoyed by the elite, can be attributed to holding my family of ancestors enslaved for over 50 years past JUNETEENTH (1866), or the official date that American history informs you that all slaves were freed.
My grandmother Nancy Washington Legree was the sister-in-law of the founder of Clemson University Thomas Green Clemson, as a result of Clemson marrying into the wealth and political power of the Calhoun family in the 1800s.
After becoming the owner of over 400 acres of slave Plantation land, Thomas Clemson later bequeathed the land to the state of South Carolina.
My family of ancestors lived inside the Calhoun mansion at Fort Hill Plantation for over. A century. An undisclosed truth that most Americans are unaware of, is the fact that slaves who lived inside the slaveholders' Plantation were actually the Slave masters’ kids. For the most part, slaveholders did not put their young Black/mulatto children out in the fields to labor, unless it was absolutely necessary, or in instances where the Slave masters (the fathers) were desperate for money.
(Pictured Above) an 1887 photo of Fort Hill Plantation in Clemson, South Carolina.
Considering that the land was initially owned by Calhoun, why wasn’t Clemson University named after Vice President John C. Calhoun?
At the very least, one could argue that it seems more reasonable that Clemson College should have been named Calhoun & Clemson University, which is a similar name used to honor the second-oldest college in America, William & Mary University.
However, it is important to note that the controversial Will of the Fort Hill Plantation estate along with the land left by John C. Calhoun had been unsuccessfully challenged over the years on several occasions, before eventually falling into the hands of Thomas Green Clemson.
Despite this, decades after Calhoun’s death, an unapologetic racist and radical politician named Ben “Pitchfork” Tillman, had taken interest in the Will left by Thomas Clemson which included the inherited property of Fort Hill Plantation and hundreds of acres of land that Thomas Clemson had gained ownership of, through his wife, Anna Maria Calhoun.
Two years after the death of Thomas Clemson, construction began to build Clemson University.
Contrary to the story that Clemson University’s history tells us about its beginnings, it is merely impossible to overlook the fact that Clemson University started out as an all-white, all-male military school, which is a far cry from the agricultural and mechanical arts college that it is today. Astonishingly, from its founding in the early 1890s, all the way up until 1955, Clemson remained a military college.
Ironically, within the same year (1890) that construction began on Clemson University, an avid racist named, Ben “Pitchfork” Tillman, became the governor of the state of South Carolina.
After researching the hidden facts, I wholeheartedly believe that the initial vision to build an institution of higher learning that involved the extensive military training of young cadets, came directly from the mind of my grandfather, John C. Calhoun, and not Thomas Green Clemson.
Only because Bill Tillman and others before him understood that John C. Calhoun had multiple children by my grandmother Martha Liza Lee, who was a Black woman, therefore the final wishes and vision of Calhoun were rejected, and the college was safely named in honor of Thomas Clemson.
Since that time, the powers that be, at Clemson University have been on a quest to erase all forms of the concealed Black Story of the 7th Vice President of the United States of America, John C. Calhoun.
In 19 Clemson University (pic of buildings committee Sawney street)
What would lead you to believe that Clemson University was the idea of John C. Calhoun’s, and not the original plan of the credited founder of Clemson, Thomas Green Clemson?
For starters, John C. Calhoun served as the head of the United States military, and for over sixty years after the college was founded, Clemson University was a military school.⬇️
Before serving his 1st of two Vice Presidential terms, under two separate Presidents, in 1817, Congressman Calhoun was chosen by President James Monroe to be the leader of the United States military. After becoming United States Secretary of War, unbeknownst to the majority of Black Americans, John C. Calhoun was the military leader who expeditiously issued the orders for the United States military, which was then led by General Andrew Jackson, to go to war against the mighty Seminole Indian Tribe, by invading Spanish FLORIDA.
The extremely risky decision made by John C. Calhoun to send troops into Florida and go to war with the fearless Seminole Tribe, proved to be very rewarding for the United States. As a result of the first Seminole War, less than two years later, Spain gave up its control of Florida and ceded the Sunshine State to the U.S.
The untold backstory that has been severely suppressed on a national level, is how the 7th Vice President of the United States of America while at Clemson, delivered the most damaging and detrimental blows to the soul of democracy, which stifled and silenced the battles for equality and the liberation of Black Americans.
In addition to that, the much greater tale of redemption that has been covered up along with all accounts of the history of the father of the Confederacy, having children by an enslaved Black woman, and amazingly, seven generations later, the great-grandson of John C. Calhoun miraculously rises from beneath the oppressive soils of the dirt, to undo the the immoral wrongs of his grandfather.
Over a century the Culture at Clemson University has tried to erase the real history of John C. Calhoun in regards to his Black American children.
In 1947 a road named in honor of one of my enslaved ancestors was recommended. Clemson never acted upon it, nor did they ever name the bridge.
Ask yourself, What formerly enslaved person have you ever heard of that a proposal is recommended for a street to be named in his honor without there being a concealed backstory? That means that there is serious history and a connection behind this undisclosed truth. There is no doubt that the slave named Sawney Jr. was John C. Calhoun’s son, just like my grandmother Nancy was.
The Confederate culture at Clemson has not changed.
Over 75 years after the recommendation to name Sawney Street was submitted, in 2020, I wrote a proposal to name an unnamed bridge in Clemson, SC after my grandmother Nancy Washington Legree, who was also the Black American daughter of John C. Calhoun. Despite receiving a unanimous vote from the Clemson City Council, and a signature from the Mayor of Clemson, the city of Clemson never followed through with naming the unnamed bridge located in the Calhoun community.
(Above) The Legree Resolution was to name an unnamed bridge in Clemson, South Carolina in honor of my 105-year old great grandmother Nancy Washington Legree, who was the hidden daughter of the 7th Vice President of the United States of America, John C. Calhoun.
There is so much more to this story than I have room to write. I am currently accepting interviews to tell my story, because this isn’t half of the full story.
There is a very INTERESTING twist to my story, which is directly connected to the Unexpected downfall of the Clemson University football team that almost no one is aware of. Clemson never made amends, nor have they ever accepted accountability for what was done to my family of ancestors on the very same campus.
No matter how much Clemson uses its Public Relations team to Whitewash the storyline and hide the truth, the proof of the true culture of deep racism is currently being exposed on a national level, where the current football coach’s ideals seem to be Eerily similar to the views of a very racist coach from Clemson’s past.⬇️
Why is Clemson the only team that blames their abrupt downfall on the players getting paid through Names, Images, Likeness (NIL) deals? Because this is their true culture. The thought of young Black gifted athletes who earn more money annually than some doctors and lawyers is overwhelming to the coach and the fan base. This is despite these same football players bringing enormous bring wealth to the school. This is Clemson’s true Culture, no matter how many Black athletes they pay to try and deceive you by convincing you otherwise.⬇️
Many do not understand that Clemson’s Death Valley stadium is named in honor of an unapologetic racist, Frank Howard, who also threatened to quit coaching if a N-word was ever allowed to play on his field at Clemson. The very next year after Black players were permitted to play football at Clemson, coach Frank Howard stopped coaching. Clemson then added Howard’s Rock to the stadium and the tradition of rubbing the rock of a racist for good luck, remains in place today.
Because my truth is so enormous, and it exposes American history truths, Clemson University has secretly conspired with others in the state of South Carolina to silence my truth, stop support of my mission, and have tried to discredit and destroy my image.
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