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Yale University

Yale's 2024 report documented that its early leaders enslaved people and that it benefited from the slave economy.

The "Yale and Slavery" project found that Yale's founders and early leaders enslaved people, that the university profited from slavery-linked wealth, and that local leaders helped block a proposed Black college in New Haven in 1831.

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Yale and Slavery (report)

Yale University

Yale's 2024 reckoning with slavery.

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Yale's leaders enslaved people and benefited from the slave economy.