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Invisible Founders: How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College: by Lynn Rainville, New York, Berghahn Books, 2019, xiii+218 pp., 22 illus., biblio., index. For example, Rainville recounts how Daisy was popularly assumed to have had friendly relationships with many of the enslaved people at Sweet Briar because she spent her summers on the plantation away from her parents. Elijah Fletcher was the father of Sweet Briar's founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams. [Extracted from the article]