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Report Landing
Introduction and Findings
A Community Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies
Slavery in the North
Slavery and Its Legacies before and after the Civil War
Slavery and Antislavery before the Civil War
Intellectual Leadership
Vestiges of Slavery after the Civil War
A Legacy of African American Resistance
Summary of the Report’s Key Findings
Slavery in New England and at Harvard
Indigenous Slavery and African Slavery
Slavery at Harvard
Financial Ties: Harvard and the Slavery Economy
New England and Caribbean Slavery
Harvard Affiliates, Slavery, and the Slave Trade in the Colonial Era
Harvard Affiliates, Slavery, and the Slave Trade into the 19th Century
Trade in Slave-Produced Goods
Southern Slavery and Northern Textile Manufacturing
Intellectual Leadership: Harvard, Slavery, and Its Legacies before and after the Civil War
Context: A Nation Torn by Slavery and a Rising University
Harvard and Abolitionism
Harvard Affiliates and Abolitionist Organizations in Massachusetts
Joshua Bowen Smith: Black Abolitionist on Campus
Charles Follen, Henry Ware, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Abolitionist Faculty Members
John Gorham Palfrey: Abolitionist Dean
Legacies of Slavery in Scholarship: Race Science
Race Scientists: Louis Agassiz, John Collins Warren, and Jeffries Wyman
Charles William Eliot: A Paradoxical Racial Legacy
Charles B. Davenport, William E. Castle, and the International Eugenics Movement
The Long Legacies of Slavery: Segregation, Marginalization, and Resistance at Harvard
Twentieth-Century Vestiges of Slavery
Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Discrimination in Admissions and Housing
Albert Bushnell Hart: A Complicated Mentor to W. E. B. Du Bois
Black Students at Harvard: A Legacy of Resistance
W. E. B. Du Bois
Ewart G. Guinier
African American Women at Radcliffe College
Eva Beatrice Dykes
Caroline Bond Day
Harvard, Radcliffe, and Racial Change
Harvard’s Role as a Champion of Racial Diversity in Higher Education
Conclusion
Recommendations to the President and Fellows of Harvard College
Recommendation 1: Engage and Support Descendant Communities by Leveraging Harvard’s Excellence in Education
Recommendation 2: Honor Enslaved People through Memorialization, Research, Curricula, and Knowledge Dissemination
Recommendation 3: Develop Enduring Partnerships with Black Colleges and Universities
Recommendation 4: Identify, Engage, and Support Direct Descendants
Recommendation 5: Honor, Engage, and Support Native Communities
Recommendation 6: Establish an Endowed Legacy of Slavery Fund to Support the University’s Reparative Efforts
Recommendation 7: Ensure Institutional Accountability
Appendix I: List of Human Beings Enslaved by Prominent Harvard Affiliates
Appendix II: A Note on Process
Acknowledgments
Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery
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