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...easy to see why the words of black critics and leaders, taken out of context, can be read as cynical renunciations of country. Abolitionist and runaway slave Frederick Douglass gave a famous oration on the meaning of Independence Day, asking "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." But instead of joining the chorus of black voices swelling with nostalgia to return to their African roots, Douglass stayed put. Poet...
...course examined both financial ties—the ways in which the University might have profited from slavery and the slave trade—and personal ties—how individuals connected to Harvard supported slavery or worked to abolish...
...Apart from Royall, several other slave owners and traders served as professors, donated to the University, or sat on its two governing boards...
...John Winthrop, the Puritan leader and first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was involved in the slave trade and donated books valued at ?20 to Harvard in 1658, marking the first time Harvard received money marked by ties to slavery...
...Cabots were another Harvard family with ties to the slave trade...