![]() ![]() It is known that Dartmouth's president brought eight black slaves to the campus and a student- study cited the first eight presidents at Princeton owning slaves.įor the most part, schools are not anxious to advertise their involvement with slavery and in reading Wilder's book be prepared for many surprises about how slavery was embedded early in the Ivy institutions. Princeton has begun an undergrad research seminar and the University of Virginia charged a commission to recommend ways to commemorate the University's "historical relationship with slavery and enslaved people." Since 2003, Brown University has investigated the University's ties to slavery and William and Mary, Harvard, Emory are among schools that have completed their own studies. Many of America's revered colleges and universities-from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, Williams College, and UNC-were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A new book by MIT professor Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America's Universities, with a tendril of ivy wrapped around a black chain on its cover, has delved into new sources. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy. ![]()
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