{"title":"The Presidential Committee on the Legacy of Slavery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Presidential Committee on the Legacy of Slavery\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a thoughtful exploration of the enduring impact of slavery within educational institutions and society. Their works provide a meticulous examination of historical legacies, highlighting efforts toward acknowledgement and reconciliation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect detailed research and reflective analysis that engage with themes of history, memory, and institutional responsibility. These writings serve as important resources for understanding how the past shapes present educational and social landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-legacy-of-slavery-at-harvard-by-the-presidential-committee-on-the-legacy-of-slavery-9780674292406","title":"The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarvard's searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships between American higher education and slavery. \u003cem\u003eThe Legacy of Slavery at Harvard\u003c\/em\u003e adds Harvard University to the long list of institutions, in the North and the South, entangled with slavery and its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe report, written by leading researchers from across the university, reveals hard truths about Harvard's deep ties to Black and Indigenous bondage, scientific racism, segregation, and other forms of oppression. Between the university's founding in 1636 and 1783, when slavery officially ended in Massachusetts, Harvard leaders, faculty, and staff enslaved at least seventy people, some of whom worked on campus, where they cared for students, faculty, and university presidents. Harvard also benefited financially and reputationally from donations by slaveholders, slave traders, and others whose fortunes depended on human chattel. Later, Harvard professors and the graduates they trained were leaders in so-called race science and eugenics, which promoted disinvestment in Black lives through forced sterilisation, residential segregation, and discrimination in education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo institution of Harvard's scale and longevity is a monolith. Harvard was also home to abolitionists and pioneering Black thinkers and activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Eva Beatrice Dykes. In the late twentieth century, the university became a champion of racial diversity in education. Yet the past cannot help casting a long shadow on the present. Harvard's motto, \u003cem\u003eVeritas\u003c\/em\u003e, inscribed on gates, doorways, and sculptures all over campus, is an exhortation to pursue truth. \u003cem\u003eThe Legacy of Slavery at Harvard\u003c\/em\u003e advances that necessary quest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432951169260,"sku":"9780674292406","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674292406.jpg?v=1774765999"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/the-presidential-committee-on-the-legacy-of-slavery.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}