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In *Ebony and Ivy*, historian Craig Steven Wilder examines the deep ties between American higher education and slavery. Drawing on scholarship and archival evidence, he shows that universities such as Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, Williams, and UNC relied on slave labor and the slave economy for their founding and growth, and that these institutions became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that justified and sustained slavery. Wilder’s work uncovers the uncomfortable truths behind the prestige of these academies and the lasting legacy of racial discrimination in education.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Craig Steven Wilder
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