Radcliffe: Universities and Slavery: Bound by History

Slavery was intertwined with the founding and growth of Harvard. 

The relationship was neither accidental nor exceptional.

This daylong conference explores the connections between universities and the institution of slavery—across the United States and around the globe—and examines what the relationship means for the present and the future. 

Journalist and National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates will deliver the keynote address and then join in conversation with Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust.

This conference is free and open to the public. Registration is required and will be online in January 2017. This event will be webcast live and available online afterwards.

To learn about all our panels and speakers and to register in January please visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2017-universities-and-slavery-conference.

Image: Daguerreotype of Renty, an African-born slave, taken by J.T. Zealy in 1850. Commissioned by Louis Agassiz. Peabody Museum, Harvard University.

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