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Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Bloomsbury Press
September 2013
On Sale: September 17, 2013
433 pages
ISBN: 1596916818
EAN: 9781596916814
Kindle: B00EKHQ7UG
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Non-Fiction
A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that
institution’s complex and contested involvement in
slavery—setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory
tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown’s
troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy,
Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of
history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery,
and the American academy.
Many of America’s revered
colleges and universities—from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
to Rutgers, Williams College, and UNC—were soaked in the
sweat, the tears, and sometimes the blood of people of
color. The earliest academies proclaimed their mission to
Christianize the savages of North America, and played a key
role in white conquest. Later, the slave economy and higher
education grew up together, each nurturing the other.
Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the wages
of professors. Enslaved Americans waited on faculty and
students; academic leaders aggressively courted the support
of slave owners and slave traders. Significantly, as Wilder
shows, our leading universities, dependent on human bondage,
became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained
them.
Ebony and Ivy is a
powerful and propulsive study and the first of its kind,
revealing a history of oppression behind the institutions
usually considered the cradle of liberal politics.
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