The recent release of a detailed report on the relationship between Harvard University and slavery has raised a number of interesting questions about the role of private institutions and equity and reparations. Below please find a list schools that a grappling with similar issues
Note: This blog was compiled by and reprinted with permission from Abdul Akalimat, PhD
Resources
Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ebony-and-ivy-9781608193837/
Universities Studying Slavery (USS) consortium https://slavery.virginia.edu/universities-studying-slavery/
Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_at_American_colleges_and_universities
AAUP https://www.aaup.org/article/higher-education%E2%80%99s-reckoning-slavery
MIT https://libraries.mit.edu/mit-and-slavery/universities-and-slavery/
Case studies
Brown University https://slaveryandjustice.brown.edu/
Chicago https://www.aaihs.org/a-case-for-reparations-at-the-university-of-chicago/
Columbia https://columbiaandslavery.columbia.edu/
Georgia https://guides.libs.uga.edu/c.php?g=957105&p=7055334
Georgetown https://www.georgetown.edu/slavery/
Harvard https://www.harvardandslavery.com/
Johns Hopkins https://hardhistory.jhu.edu/insights-complete/johns-hopkins-and-slavery/
Mississippi https://slaveryresearchgroup.olemiss.edu/
North Carolina https://museum.unc.edu/exhibits/show/slavery
Pennsylvania http://pennandslaveryproject.org/
Princeton https://slavery.princeton.edu/
South Carolina http://slaveryatusc.weebly.com/
Virginia https://slavery.virginia.edu/
Wake Forrest https://srmp.wfu.edu/
Washington (St. Louis) https://slavery.wustl.edu/
Washington and Lee https://my.wlu.edu/working-group-on-african-american-history/timeline-of-african-americans-at-wandl
William and Mary https://www.wm.edu/sites/enslavedmemorial/slavery-at-wm/index.php
Yale https://yaleandslavery.yale.edu/