The slave trade 'powerfully shaped Harvard,' the school says in a new report. It is committing $100 million to help redress its complicity.
Harvard University is dedicating $100 million for the creation of a fund to study and redress its"extensive entanglements with slavery," university President Lawrence Bacow said Tuesday.
The university's attempt to reckon with its past is detailed in a report titled"Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery," which documents how the slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries"comprised a vital part of the New England economy, and powerfully shaped Harvard University.""The report makes plain that slavery in America was by no means confined to the South," Bacow said in a message to members of the Harvard community.
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