| Description |
xiii, 432 pages : 54 illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Published with assistance of Yale University's Office of the President and financial assistance from the Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Reports the results of an investigation into Yale University's historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, and its abolition. |
| Local Subject |
Trafficking in enslaved persons -- History.
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| Subject |
Slavery -- Connecticut -- History.
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Enslaved persons -- Connecticut -- History.
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Universities and colleges -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History.
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Yale University -- History.
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New Haven (Conn.) -- History.
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Slavery -- History.
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Slave trade -- History.
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| Added Author |
Salovey, Peter, writer of foreword.
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Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund, sponsoring body.
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Yale University. Office of the President, contributor.
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Yale University. Yale & Slavery Research Project, contributor.
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| Added Title |
Yale & slavery : a history |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Blight, David W. Yale and slavery (OCoLC)1422160448 |
| ISBN |
9780300273847 (hardcover) |
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0300273843 (hardcover) |
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