Columbia University

King's College, chartered in 1754 and later renamed Columbia, was established in a New York economy saturated with the slave trade, and funded in part by men enriched by it. The Columbia University & Slavery project, launched in 2014 under the historian Eric Foner, documented that the school's affiliates, at least two college presidents, dozens of trustees, and nineteen professors, enslaved people, with 227 enslaved people counted in Columbia-affiliated households in the 1790 census alone. Students and staff ran newspaper advertisements to recapture people who had freed themselves. Columbia installed historical markers acknowledging this history in 2022.