Posted on Apr 27, 2022
Harvard releases report detailing its ties to slavery, plans to issue reparations
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Harvard University has released a report detailing the school's involvement in the U.S. slave trade, including faculty and staff owning slaves and professors teaching racial eugenics.
In 2019, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow formed a committee that included representatives from all the schools on campus, and asked them to uncover Harvard's ties to slavery.
The committee's work should "have a strong grounding in rigorous research and critical perspectives that will inform not only our understanding of facts, but also how we might address the ramifications of what we learn," he said at the time.
The committee found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.
Some of those who were enslaved lived on campus and were responsible for providing care for Harvard's presidents, professors and students.
Harvard University has released a report detailing the school's involvement in the U.S. slave trade, including faculty and staff owning slaves and professors teaching racial eugenics.
In 2019, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow formed a committee that included representatives from all the schools on campus, and asked them to uncover Harvard's ties to slavery.
The committee's work should "have a strong grounding in rigorous research and critical perspectives that will inform not only our understanding of facts, but also how we might address the ramifications of what we learn," he said at the time.
The committee found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.
Some of those who were enslaved lived on campus and were responsible for providing care for Harvard's presidents, professors and students.
Harvard releases report detailing its ties to slavery, plans to issue reparations
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"Should Harvard have reparations for slavery?
Harvard confronting their past is a positive step. But they're just one of thousands of schools that benefitted from slave labor. We can't have reparations until every institution-including the US government-confronts the full scope of harm inflicted upon Black Americans."
"Should Harvard have reparations for slavery?
Harvard confronting their past is a positive step. But they're just one of thousands of schools that benefitted from slave labor. We can't have reparations until every institution-including the US government-confronts the full scope of harm inflicted upon Black Americans."
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel a very interesting self examination of history, and plan for reparations.
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I am most interested in the reparations piece since I have never figured out how that would work.
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