Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1596916818 ISBN13: 9781596916814 Release Date: September 2013 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Length: 432 Pages Weight: 1.60 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5" 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. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. 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. Many of America's revered colleges and universities-from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, Williams College, and UNC-were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the blood of people of color. The earliest academies proclaimed their mission to Christianize the savages of North America, and played a key role in white conquest. Later