 Complete the following phrase:  From its founding in 1693 to the outbreak of the Civil War, the college owned, hired out, and rented slaves... Professors such as Thomas Roderick Dew William  Mary President 18361846 and Henry A. Washington argued that slavery was a benevolent institution serving a greater moral good... Professors and students paternalistic defenses of slavery in the antebellum period left an important impact on racial struggles at the College of William  Mary. President Dew, author of A Review of the Debates in the Legislature of 1831 and 1832, was the intellectual leader of the pro-slavery movement, and played a major role in ending the growing movement for liberating all of Virginias slaves following 