CLEMSON — After multiple reports from students, the Clemson University Police Department is one of several entities across the nation investigating anonymous and racist text messages telling Black students they’ve been selected for plantation work.

Screenshots posted to social media show each message includes the recipient’s name and tells them they will be picked up by “executive slaves” for their new role of picking cotton at the nearest plantation.

Clemson University received its first reports of the messages on Wednesday, according to campus police.

“CUPD immediately initiated an investigation and began working with state partners to identify the source of the messages,” the department posted online. “These numbers have been determined to be associated with online spoofing sites.”

Institutions across multiple states have reported similar messages, CUPD said, and there is no indication of a credible threat.

Similar messages have been reported in Alabama, New York Pennsylvania and Tennessee, according to The Associated Press.

The University of South Carolina has received “a few” reports from students about receiving the racist texts, according to university spokesman Jeff Stensland.

Fort Hill, the antebellum plantation of former U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun and university founder Thomas Green Clemson, sits at the core of Clemson’s campus.

Nearby is Cemetery Hill, home to 500 recently discovered unmarked graves of enslaved people, tenant farmers, convicted laborers and domestic workers.

Clemson University police are working with state law enforcement and federal agencies, the department said.

Clemson students who receive a suspicious message from an unrecognized number should report it to CUPD by calling 864-656-2222.