Diverse college and university campuses with origins before Emancipation embody a potent paradox. Architecturally and spatially, they present tangible models of idealized utopian spaces, yet these utopian imagined communities rest upon under-acknowledged histories of slavery and slave trades. This essay explores slippages and fissures in the landscape of memory on the university campus and its environs, with particular attention to Oxford, Georgia, Emory University's birthplace.