[Craig Steven Wilder, Ph.D.]
Slavery and the slave trade provided the foundations for the rise of higher education in North America
[Amy Goodman]
Some of the country’s major universities—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Williams, the University of North Carolina, to name just a few—are drenched in sweat, and sometimes the blood, of Africans brought here as slaves
The slave economy and higher education grew up together
"The American campus stood as a silent monument to slavery."
Well, this history is silent no more