Vindicating Yale Bogus slave accusations. Last August, with Yale in the midst of preparations for its huge 300th-birthday bash, three graduate students dropped a bomb on the university in the form of a report, entitled "Yale, Slavery and Abolition." To cause maximum damage, they coordinated with the New York Times, which published a story on the report the same day it was released. The authors, Antony Dugdale, J. J. Fueser, and J. Celso de Castro Alves, set out to expose Yale's slave-holding roots and early dependence on slave-trading money, to paint Yale as a bastion of pro-slavery thought, and to...
