Harvard\'s searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel Slavery and anti-Black discrimination.
The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard advances that necessary quest..
Harvard\'s motto, Veritas , inscribed on gates, doorways, and sculptures all over campus, is an exhortation to pursue truth.
Yet the past cannot help casting a long shadow on the present.
In the late twentieth century, the university became a champion of racial diversity in education.
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Harvard was also home to abolitionists and pioneering Black thinkers and activists such as W.
No institution of Harvard\'s scale and longevity is a monolith.
Later, Harvard professors and the graduates they trained were leaders in so-called race science and eugenics, which promoted disinvestment in Black lives through forced sterilization, residential segregation, and segregation and discrimination in education.
Harvard also benefited financially and reputationally from donations by slaveholders, slave traders, and others whose fortunes depended on human chattel.
Between the university\'s founding in 1636 and 1783, when Slavery officially ended in Massachusetts, Harvard leaders, faculty, and staff enslaved at least seventy people, some of whom worked on campus, where they cared for students, faculty, and university presidents.
The report, written by leading researchers from across the university, reveals hard truths about Harvard\'s deep ties to Black and Indigenous bondage, scientific racism, segregation, and other forms of oppression.
The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard adds Harvard University to the long list of institutions, in the North and the South, entangled with Slavery and its aftermath.
In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships between American higher education and slavery.
Harvard\'s searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel Slavery and anti-Black discrimination
