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...over-the-top vocal flourishes to the a cappella ending to Jemaine forgetting the catchy chorus is flawlessly put together to poke fun at the predictable structure of celebrity collaboration records. They even touch on all the issues: “They’re turning kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers, but what’s the real cost? ’Cause the sneakers don’t seem that much cheaper. Why are we still paying so much for sneakers when you are having them made by little kid slave babies—what...
...institutional history, the University might do well to take a cue from its peers.Like many venerable American universities, Harvard’s past is tied to slavery: for decades, if not centuries, the University inculcated pro-slavery sentiment and benefitted from funds that were the fruits of the slave trade or slave labor. But unlike many of its peers—such as Brown and Yale—Harvard has never conducted a formal examination of its past. And though the University has no plans to launch such an investigation, many feel the time is right for Harvard...
...Active in the textile industry, the Brahmin Cabots reaped profits from the slave trade, according to Bartels’ research. Samuel Cabot, Sr. and John Cabot, Class of 1763, were both involved in industries deeply entangled with slavery, including rum distillation and sugar and molasses exportation. (The undergraduate House is named in honor of their descendants, University benefactors Thomas D. Cabot, Class of 1919, and his wife Virginia...
...Thomas W. Ward, who served as Harvard’s Treasurer from 1830 to 1842, supervised American operations for the British merchant bank Baring Brothers and Company, whose cotton and sugar operations profited from slave labor...
...noted 19th century jurist Timothy Walker, Class of 1826, devoted his 1851 Phi Beta Kappa speech to mocking abolitionists. And after Daniel Webster, a the legendary Massachusetts senator, gave a speech endorsing the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, Harvard President Jared Sparks, Class of 1815, and several professors signed a letter to the editor of the Boston Courier to show their support, according to the book “Veritas,” a history of Harvard by Andrew B. Schlesinger...