Word: slaving
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...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...
...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...