Dozens of American colleges and universities are investigating their historic ties to the slave trade and debating how to atone. Profits from slavery and related industries helped fund some of the most prestigious schools in the Northeast,including Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton and Yale. And in many southern states — including the University of Virginia — […]The post How slavery helped build many U.
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