We spend the hour with the author of a new book, 10 years in the making,
that examines how many major U.S. universities — Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Rutgers, Williams and the University of
North Carolina, among others — are drenched in the sweat, and sometimes
the blood, of Africans brought to the United States as slaves. In "Ebony
& Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s
Universities," Massachusetts Institute of Technology American history
professor Craig Steven Wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher
education grew up together. "When you think about the colonial world,
until the American Revolution, there is only one college in the South,
William & Mary ... The other eight colleges were all Northern
schools, and they’re actually located in key sites, for the most part,
of the merchant economy where the slave traders had come to power and
rose as the financial and intellectual backers of new culture of the
colonies," Wilder says.
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