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...recent weeks, we’ve heard a great deal about the connections of venerable American universities to slavery. Harvard Law School’s first endowed chair was funded with money made off of slavery in the Caribbean, where life was particularly miserable for slaves. The family that founded Brown University made much of its money on the slave trade. No one has mentioned Princeton recently, though slaves worked on that campus. And we have been reminded that many of Yale’s colleges and buildings are named after slave-owners. Even John C. Calhoun, the most notorious...
...made from slavery, celebrated slaveholders and even pro-slavery politicians, and educated others to follow in those steps. While Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, was telling students to reject outmoded ideas—like slavery—orators at Yale ridiculed him. In the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required Northerners to return fugitive slaves to their Southern owners, college speakers throughout the country argued fiercely in favor of the act. They criticized those who broke the law to protect humans from being sent back to slavery...
...that score, the senior British delegate, Lady Amos, says most European governments are happy to condemn modern slavery as a "crime against humanity," but they refuse to do the same for the historic slave trade, because that would have "legal implications." (In other words, slavery is a crime for which the likes of Sudan will be held liable, but that standard won't apply for Britain, France or the United States.) Still, she offers by way of consolation, that Britain and the Europeans would be happy to use "very strong wording" to denounce the historic slave trade, even going...
...happy pagan" in his youth. By his 20s he had moved to Los Angeles and founded Bright's California Confections. But he fell into the circle of legendary Christian youth worker Henrietta Mears, and under her influence drafted a contract with the Lord stipulating, in part, "I am your slave." His for-profit work tailed off; but his entrepreneurial bent flourished. In the 1950's, conservative Christian youth had begun an exodus from small bible colleges into liberal arts schools, wildernesses of secularism. Sensing a market, Bright founded Campus Crusade's first branch, at UCLA...
...ships first called on Champa, the powerful Hindu kingdom had dominated central Vietnam for more than 1,000 years. The haven described by the fleet's Chinese chronicler Ma Huan was the rough port town of Qui Nhon, where sarong-wearing, wiry-haired Cham ivory merchants and slave traders plied their wares. Yet in 1471, less than 70 years later, the northern Annam kingdom of ethnic Vietnamese conquered the Chams, driving them south and scattering them. Some remained Hindu but many in Cambodia and southern Vietnam later converted to Islam en masse, and their ancient culture was nearly forgot...