Posted on 06/17/2018 7:41:46 PM PDT by Beave Meister
By the way....when is Harvard going to finally give up all the money it received from New England Slave Traders? Adjusted for inflation, that’s going to be a massive sum. Same goes for the rest of the Ivy League since New England was THE slave trading hub of the entire western hemisphere in the 19th century.
History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities
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, Princeton and Yale.......Early benefactors who gave money to Brown and Harvard, for instance, made their fortunes running slave ships to Africa and milling cotton from plantations......”Yale inherited a small slave plantation in Rhode Island that it used to fund its first graduate programs and its first scholarships,” Wilder says. “It aggressively sought out opportunities to benefit from the slave economies of New England and the broader Atlantic world.”
At Harvard, markers of slavery
Harvard was the first institution of higher learning in America, founded in 1636. Slavery and the slave economy thread through the first 150 years of its history. Slaves made beds and meals for Harvard presidents. Many of the school’s major donors in its first centuries made their fortunes in industries either based on, or connected to, slavery.
Harvard’s ties to slavery were never a secret. Today, however, they’re hardly common knowledge on campus and they’re generally not reflected in official histories of the university.
That started to change in 2007, when Sven Beckert, a professor of American history, taught a seminar with four Harvard undergraduates. Their mission: dig into the school’s archival records to see what traces of slavery they could find. Beckert had been inspired by Simmons’ commitment at Brown.
They soon discovered that prominent Harvard figures — including the Puritan Minister Cotton Mather and the Declaration of Independence signatory John Hancock — were slave owners. “In some ways we were surprised by what we found,” Beckert says. “Of course, it was ridiculous that we were surprised, because clearly the economy of New England was deeply engaged with the slave economy.”
In fact, Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery, in 1641.
Sugar plantations in the Caribbean devoted most of their land to growing cane. They imported grain, meat, codfish and other supplies from New England. Ship owners in New England hauled back barrels of molasses to make rum. Then they shipped the rum to Africa to pay for slaves. New England merchants used part of the profits from this triangular trade to finance Harvard and other schools.
Over time, cotton from slave plantations in the Caribbean and the American South entered the mix. Cotton fed the great textile mills owned by the Lowell family of Boston, which had extensive ties to Harvard, including a Harvard president and a prominent professor.
Banks in Boston and New York supplied loans to southern plantation owners to buy slaves and seed; northern insurance companies underwrote slave voyages to Africa and the lives of enslaved people.
“Enslavement and the slave economy was the road for upward mobility for a lot of white Bostonians in the colonial era, and then the antebellum era. And part of becoming respectable is donating to a place like Harvard,” says Kathrine Stevens, assistant professor of history at Oglethorp University in Atlanta. Stevens was a Harvard graduate student when she helped Beckert teach his seminar.
Scientific racism is another of Harvard’s legacies. In the 19th and 20th centuries, some Harvard professors proposed scientific theories they said proved the inherent inferiority of black people. Chief among them was Louis Agassiz, the geologist and zoologist often described as one of the “founding fathers” of American science.
Agassiz promoted the idea of polygenism — that the different races descended from different species. Other Harvard scientists propagating scientific theories of white superiority were Nathanial Shaler, dean of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, and anthropology professor Earnest Hooton.
“The work they did contributed greatly to legitimizing slavery in the 19th century and to the discrimination that followed,” says Zoe Weinberg, a student at Yale Law School who took Beckert’s seminar as an undergraduate at Harvard. “Harvard really acted as a pioneer and champion of the field of race science. That was a history I was totally unaware of as a student.”
Anti-slavery activists on the Harvard campus were pariahs for much of the antebellum period. Harvard professors who spoke openly against slavery invited fierce criticism from Boston newspapers and risked losing their jobs.
This past March, Faust and Harvard held a major conference on universities and slavery, drawing people from around the world.
“Harvard was directly complicit in slavery from the college’s earliest days,” Faust told the overflow crowd. “This history and its legacy have shaped our institution in ways we have yet to fully understand.”
Under pressure from students, the Harvard Law School in 2016 retired its shield — essentially its logo — because it was based on the family crest of an 18th century slave-holding family of Isaac Royall Jr., who endowed the first law professorship at Harvard in 1815, described as the most distinguished chair in American legal education. Royall’s father was a Caribbean plantation owner who built the family fortune trading in sugar, rum and slaves.
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2017/09/04/shackled-legacy
Always happy to introduce our bluest of blue state and bluest of blue Ivy League University friends to their true history.
Stop all federal funding to these anti free speech bastards.— ZERO!!
Those bastards can get rid of all the “white” men they want. It’s going to suck when they do and everything in America just stops. Football, basketball and baseball players cannot perform neurosurgery. Rappers, movie stars and other liberal elitists cannot perform neurosurgery. It’s going to get ugly.
Thank God Russia is Christian and free. Maybe our grandchildren can flee there.
It’s THIER turn. Thank you!
< /sarc >
Both classical music and spiritual hymnology have been booted out.
What we have now in its place is Satan's introduction to the worship of meaningless chaos. That's where the money is.
To be replaced by pictures of witch doctors. Remember, “all cultures are equal.” However, primitive cultures are more equal than any others.
Academia except the hard sciences is subject to Marxism
The real world outside guvmint. Is NOT
REAL firms hire the most talented folks
Lysenkoism
Check it out. Science takes back seat to politics in Russia.
(Except for Nuke Scientists; Russia wanted Nukes to work right.)
I remember reading that archaeologists had found in Sudan a 7000-year-old skull that had a hole drilled in it, apparently for some medical purpose. Have anthropologists figure out what a Sudanese from seven millenia ago looked like. Have an artist do the painting representing the witch doctor who drilled the hole. Voila! There’s your new father of neurosurgery. Make it a woman, the mother of neurosurgery, and that’s sure to find an honored place.
Okay, every company in the world just went out of business. Now what?
Blacks don’t want equality, they wish us dead or eliminated in one way or another. It is that simple.
Really?
Thanks for the update. I better start being careful around my better half, or she might want me dead, like you said.
“It’s worse than all think.
Diversity Policies Are Corrupting the Sciences....”
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I’ve encountered several products of affirmative action in medical school admissions when taking family members to “minute clinics”. It’s scary and bad for the nation and the broader American populous.
To the extent we’re dumbing down science and technical education standards, training AND CANDIDATES, our national competitive goes down. Does anyone think that China and Korea are dumbing down or engaging in affirmative action?
“Only one question: Why is the portrait in the article of Isaac Newton?”
All white people look alike.
My father, a Vanderbilt neurosurgeon, trained under Cobb Pilcher, and Pilcher had trained under Harvey Cushing. Daddy was fond of saying that there are more neurosurgeons today (said about 1999) in Caracas, Venezuela than there were in the entire world when he became a brain surgeon.
Cushing’s three daughters all married up into high society and wealth. One was the daughter in-law of FDR. One was the fashion icon Babe Cushing Paley who married Bill Paley who built CBS into a major network.
Creating tomorrows unemployable graduates today.
I wonder how many black, Asian, African, Hispanic, etc lives Dr. Cushing and his work saved back then, and through time.
There is a very biased and stupid woman (Dr. Betsy Nabel) running this hospital who needs to be fired immediately for “prejudice” against white men. Gee, I’ll bet all her medical school teachers were from Zimbabwe, Libya, Mauritania, Mauritius and No. Korea.
What a fool and a racist disgrace.
PS: My late uncle was a white, Jewish doctor who never turned anybody away and charged less than that AMA “suggested rates”.
I was once sitting in his office when an elderly woman, her daughter and granddaughter came in for a visit. My uncle only charged them for one person because he knew that they couldn’t afford to pay for all three, and told me so.
He was a child of the depression, having lost his father when he was young. His mother (my grandmother) worked 7 days a week to send him through medical school, which meant that his brother and sister (my mother) couldn’t go to college even-though the average IQ in that family was over 140 on the average, with my uncle’s being about 180.
My uncle wasn’t prejudiced but this stupid bitch at the Women’s Hospital is.
Oh, by the way, my uncle was so smart that he graduated high school at 15, college at 19 and medical school at 23-24, including breaking the Jewish quota at Johns Hopkins University, a great university and a great center of anti-Semitism in the 1920’s and 30’s.
Over the years he delivered between 3-5,000 babies even-though he was just a GP, not a pediatrician, but he had medical privileges at every hospital in Baltimore, and even when he was in his late 70’s, when he roared, everyone listened.
Dr. Nabel will never be a quarter of the person my uncle was but she’ll sure beat him for being prejudiced, by a mile.
#9. “Oops”? Splash. “What do you mean ‘Oops’?”
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