Harvard's Deep Ties to Slavery: Report Shows It Profited, Then Tried to Erase History of Complicity

In the final part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we look at Harvard University's recent report detailing the school's extensive ties to slavery and pledged $100 million for a fund for scholars to continue to research the topic. The report documents dozens of prominent people associated with Harvard who enslaved people, including four Harvard presidents. Harvard commissioned the study in 2019 as part of a wave of schools reckoning with their pasts and the ongoing legacy of racial discrimination. "Harvard's ties to slavery begin with the founding of the institution," says MIT historian Craig Steven Wilder, author of "Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities." Wilder says that while this history is not new, Harvard worked for decades to erase its complicity in slavery. "We're really only beginning to reconcile and to really struggle with the deep ties that this institution has to slavery," he adds.

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[livencali]

These people are true barbarians! That is all I can say about them.

[YGPR]

after going down the rabbit hole of some research that i was doing, i ran across an article that shows the main road in my city is named after the largest slave owner in this county that i live in. All of the roads in the main part of town are named after slave owners. I posted it on one of my social medias and i cannot find my post or the article anywhere now. there is definitely an intention to distort our memories.

[andresimmons]

Thank you for producing and broadcasting this piece!

[Labor_Jones]

The OSS psychological profile of Hitler described him thus:
"His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."

Sound familiar?

[messyi]

Bible prophecy states “knowledge will increase in the last days” Daniel 12:4.
Whatever hidden must come to light...
Luke 8:17.

[chocolatesugar]

The gaslighting black people have to contend with on this level, it's a wonder we stay sane in this society. The man, not even able to rest in peace to this day - imagine.

[charleskristiansson]

The whole concept on corporatism came from Great Britain. This toxic mineset has been alive for hundreds of years.

[negrodelfin]

I've been thinking about studying history, the only problem is I know the university's are part of the cover up

[politicsandbs]

I’m sure more institutions were complicit in those times. It was their society.

[lottieholman]

This is so insane I pray the most high Yah continues to judge America 🇺🇸

[jammon]

100 million dollars for research lol but nothing to reparations

[MuscadineMarlon]

Harvard just retracted a smear campaign article against ADOS Advocacy foundation. You should cover that story as well. Especially given how rare a retraction is by Harvard.

[phyllisthompson]

When you think about hell on earth, this is a great example.. No words.

[childofGodsKingdom]

So much money to be had over slavery! They did not want this to ever end! Talk about the love of money being the root of EVIL. This is a paramount example of it.

[mosimosi]

This is so upsetting as a black person 🤬🤬🤬

[legallyblindlawfullywoke]

Whose land does Harvard sit on?
Where are those people?

[lanessia]

He used the man’s skin as a bag! How sick and Barbaric!!

[ITALJUTE]

7:14 If we had ever done anything even half as bad as this to them, we would never hear the end of it and every single one of us would still be paying a special tax to compensate them for it.

[lissarodrigues]

My country Cape Verd 🏝 got independence from Portugal 🇵🇹 in 1975 i was a teenager I remember the day clearly. This things didn't happen long time ago.

[yurielcundangan]

The worse stuff about bad guys is they think they're actually the good FOLKS