Blight, David W., Yale and slavery , [2024]
- Title(s):
Yale and slavery : a history / David W. Blight with the Yale and Slavery Research Project ; foreword by Peter Salovey.
- Additional Title(s):
Yale & slavery : a history
- Published/Created:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024]
©2024 - Physical Description:
- xiii, 432 pages : 54 illustrations (black & white), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryLD6334 .B55 2024 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16999217
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Published with assistance of Yale University's Office of the President and financial assistance from the Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on wide-ranging archival materials, Yale and Slavery extends from the century before the college’s founding in 1701 to the dedication of its Civil War memorial in 1915, while engaging with the legacies and remembrance of this complex story. The book brings into focus the enslaved and free Black people who have been part of Yale’s history from the beginning - but too often ignored in official accounts. These individuals and their descendants worked at Yale; petitioned and fought for freedom and dignity; built churches, schools, and antislavery organizations; and were among the first Black students to transform the university from the inside. -- publisher's description - Subject Terms:
- Enslaved persons -- Connecticut -- History.New Haven (Conn.) -- History.Slave trade -- History.Slavery -- Connecticut -- History.Slavery -- History.Universities and colleges -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History.Yale University -- History.
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- War, slavery, and Christianity
- Founders
- Interlude : names of the enslaved
- West Indian trade, Connecticut, and the college
- Slavery and the American Revolution
- Interlude : gradual emancipation in Connecticut
- Yale in the Early Republic
- The 1831 Black college
- La Amistad
- Antebellum Yale and its Abolitionist discontents
- Yale and New Haven in the Civil War
- Interlude : a Yale family in slavery and freedom
- Black students at Yale
- Interlude : Black employees at Yale
- Embracing the white South
- Yale's Civil War memorial
- Interlude : the birth of a nation in New Haven, 1915.