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Yale and slavery : a history / David W. Blight with the Yale and Slavery Research Project ; foreword by Peter Salovey.
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- Format:
- Archive
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blight, David W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yale University--History.
- Yale University.
- Universities and colleges--Connecticut--New Haven--History.
- Universities and colleges.
- Enslaved persons--Connecticut--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slave trade--History.
- Slave trade.
- Slavery--Connecticut--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--History.
- New Haven (Conn.)--History.
- New Haven (Conn.).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 432 pages : 54 illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Yale & slavery : a history
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Reports the results of an investigation into Yale University's historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, and its abolition.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Published with assistance of Yale University's Office of the President and financial assistance from the Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Blight, David W. Yale and slavery
- ISBN:
- 9780300273847
- 0300273843
- OCLC:
- 1395421751
- Publisher Number:
- 99995722407
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