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Yale and slavery : a history
Author
Title
Yale and slavery : a history / David W. Blight with the Yale and Slavery Research Project ; foreword by Peter Salovey.
ISBN
0300273843
9780300273847
Publication
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024]
Physical Description
1 online resource ([xiv], 432 pages) : 54 illustrations (black & white), facsimiles, maps, portraits
Notes
Published with assistance of Yale University's Office of the President and financial assistance from the Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund.
Description based on preliminary print record and online resource (viewed via Yale & Slavery Research Project website, 16 February 2024).
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Unrestricted online access.
Summary
Reports the results of an investigation into Yale University's historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, and its abolition.
Variant and related titles
Yale & slavery : a history
Other formats
Print version: Blight, David W. Yale and slavery
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2024
Partial contents
War, slavery, and Christianity
Founders
Interlude : names of the enslaved
West Indian trade, Connecticut, and the college
Slavery and the American Revolution
Interlude : gradual emancipation in Connecticut
Yale in the Early Republic
The 1831 Black college
La Amistad
Antebellum Yale and its Abolitionist discontents
Yale and New Haven in the Civil War
Interlude : a Yale family in slavery and freedom
Black students and Yale
Interlude : Black employees at Yale
Embracing the white South
Yale's Civil War memorial
Interlude : the birth of a nation in New Haven, 1915.
Subjects
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Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund, sponsoring body.
Yale University. Office of the President, contributor.
Yale University. Yale & Slavery Research Project, contributor.
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