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N.C. college to keep name of slave owner on campus building. School president explains why
Chambers Hall on the campus of Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. - Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS

N.C. college to keep name of slave owner on campus building. School president explains why

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Davidson College’s central academic building will continue to bear the name of a man who enslaved people, school officials say.

The college decided to keep the Chambers building, named after Maxwell Chambers, after a lengthy examination into how the school could both acknowledge its ties to slavery while also preserving a portion of its own history.

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