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>In presenting his research, Lee included case studies of several Black scholars of Xenophon throughout American history, from the Grimké brothers to W.E.B. Du Bois.

These included

John Chavis, a free Black educator, minister, and Revolutionary War veteran who studied Greek at Princeton in the 1790s;

Fanny Jackson Coppin, another educator and among the first Black alumnae of Oberlin College, who wrote in her memoirs of her joy teaching Xenophon;

William Sanders Scarborough, a president of Wilberforce University whose extremely popular First Lessons in Greek—likely the first textbook by an African American—was written specifically for the Anabasis
>Anabasis is the most famous work of Xenophon

wonder if there is a connection to
Xenophobia (from Ancient Greek: ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and φόβος (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.