Ebony and Ivy is a powerful and propulsive study and the first of its kind, revealing a history of oppression behind the institutions usually considered the cradle of liberal politics. Significantly, as Wilder shows, our leading universities were dependent on human bondage and became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.

Enslaved Americans waited on faculty and students academic leaders aggressively courted the support of slave owners and slave traders. Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the wages of professors. Later, the slave economy and higher education grew up together, each nurturing the other. The earliest academies proclaimed their mission to Christianize the “savages” of North America and played a key role in white conquest. Many of America's revered colleges and universities-from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, Williams College, and the University of North Carolina-were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the blood of people of color. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a leading historian of race in America, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. Craig Steven Wilder is a professor of American history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ebony Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder (29 results) You searched for: Author: craig steven wilder, Title: ebony ivy. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of Americas Universities 1st Edition is written by Craig Steven Wilder and published by Bloomsbury Press. A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery-setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy. Ebony And Ivy (Compact Disc) by Craig Steven Wilder and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.

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