Month: April 2022

Dual Message of Slavery Probe: Harvard’s Ties Inseparable from Rise, and Now University Must Act

Engraving of Harvard in 1726. "A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England," William Burgis, 1726.

A new report shows that Harvard’s ties to slavery were transformative in the University’s rise to global prominence, and included enslaved individuals on campus, funding from donors engaged in the slave trade, and intellectual leadership that obstructed efforts to achieve racial equality….Continue Reading Dual Message of Slavery Probe: Harvard’s Ties Inseparable from Rise, and Now University Must Act