The University of Virginia designed a new athletics logo earlier this year that incorporated the school’s famous serpentine walls. As soon as the design was revealed, however, activists insisted the serpentine walls were built to keep white students from having to view the slaves that worked on the campus.
Now, an architectural history professor at the university is challenging that claim, suggesting Thomas Jefferson actually designed the walls to save on materials and perhaps to keep drunk students from destroying the professor’s gardens. Professor emeritus Richard Guy Wilson told The Washington Free Beacon that while slaves did work on the UVA campus, the walls were not intended to hide them.
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