![]() ![]() Significantly, as Wilder shows, our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained them.Įbony 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. ![]() 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. 2 2014 by Craig Steven Wilder (Author), Corey Allen (Reader) 263 ratings Kindle Edition 10.29 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 31.19 7 Used from 18.18 4 New from 25. Later, the slave economy and higher education grew up together, each nurturing the other. Craig Steven Wilder Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities MP3 CD Unabridged, Sept. ![]() The earliest academies proclaimed their mission to Christianize the savages of North America, and they 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 UNC - were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the blood of people of color. 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. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. 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. ![]()
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