Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery
Harvard's sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination. In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships between American higher education and slavery. Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a short documentary film that accompanies a report written by leading researchers from across the university, adds Harvard to the long list of institutions, in the North and the South, entangled with slavery and its aftermath.
- Released
- 2022
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Release year: 2022
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Harvard's sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination. In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships between American higher education and slavery. Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a short documentary film that accompanies a report written by leading researchers from across the university, adds Harvard to the long list of institutions, in the North and the South, entangled with slavery and its aftermath.