After Silent Sam’s Fall, Calls to Rename a Building at Duke Grow Louder

When Adam Domby was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he came across a 1913 speech by a trustee at Trinity College, which would eventually become Duke University (NC). Julian Carr, the trustee, was unveiling the bronze statue of a Confederate soldier, known today as “Silent Sam,” at UNC when he boasted about having “horse-whipped a negro wench,” which he called a “pleasing duty.”