Story get more idiotic. A throwaway line in the original article expanded here.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-yale-remove-stained-glass-windows-40531347
I suggest they replace the offending windows with scenes depicting Pokemon Go monsters. Then when this fad passes put in new windows showing the flavor of the moment. Who needs history.
BTW I can find nothing on the history of these windows. Could some black craftsmen have made them?
And maybe they weren’t slaves, maybe it depicting hired field hands!
“BTW I can find nothing on the history of these windows. Can some black craftsman have made them?”
Think of the plantation homes and pretty much everything in them. Take a stroll thru the French quarter and look at all those cast iron balconies and beautiful millwork and unique doorways. The gorgeous statuary of angels and saints in the cemeteries. All this is the artisanry of black men, both slave and free.
The writer Anne Rice, best known for her vampire books, has searched extensive archives about these artisans, and has written about them.
It was quite common for slave owners to grant freedom to the more talented and ambitious of the slaves—even before the Civil War— precisely because these could set up shop and earn their own way.
These freedmen were celebrated and were far more prosperous than the white common laborers.