A few days later, out of the blue, she received an email from an undergraduate student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
As the country’s oldest and wealthiest university, Harvard’s history is inextricable from the history of transatlantic slavery.
Currently more than 100 universities across the world are investigating their ties to slavery, the vast majority of which are in the US.
A small subset of the universities researching their ties to slavery – approximately five – have committed to conducting genealogical research and identifying living descendants.
The California state reparations taskforce published a 1,000-page report two years ago, and state legislators have been developing – and passing – reparations-related initiatives.
That year, the Guardian also launched an ongoing series called Cotton Capital, which explores the legacies of slavery globally.
When he started the research, Harvard had already identified the names of 70 people that had been enslaved with ties to the university. »
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