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Published on Friday, Feb. 16, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, Blight’s narrative history sheds light on Yale’s historical entanglement with the practice of racial slavery.
Alongside the release of history professor David Blight’s book on “Yale and Slavery: A History” on Friday, the University formally apologized for the role slavery played in the institution and its early leaders’ lives. In response, Yale has announced a set of actions, some of which were first announced in the previous two years, to acknowledge the school’s ties to the institution of slavery.