IVY League Schools And Its Connections To Slavery

There is a lot to say about American History that the planet earth doesn’t know about, significantly, the black race. We all want to strive to attend the best Universities on the Planet. Is it possible or will my Conscience permits me to attend prestigious Universities built and established by Slaves or connected to Slavery? I will die in my guilt. Let me whisper to the Universe.

Did you know that many major universities in the United States including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Rutgers, Williams and the University of North Carolina, just to mention a few have deep ties with slavery and that before the civil war, slaves were held used and brought to these schools by professors and students? DO YOU KNOW THAT HUH!!!! Let me connect or take you back to History. What my Ancestors went through.

SCHOOLS HAD TIES TO THE SALE OF SLAVES

In 1766, do you know that slaves owned by Princeton President Samuel Finley were auctioned off at the president’s house on campus a month after Finley’s death? Shhh!!!! A Moment of Silence for my ancestors who are the Hebrews. For the Princeton students who are blacks, the teachers, faculty members and Organizations, hear me out and ponder on this. Are you aware of this important era of history? I shall continue.

By the 1810s, the Jesuits’ tobacco plantations failed, and Georgetown was in debt. For some 20 years, the priests debated whether to free their slaves keep them as part of their religious stewardship or sell them. Do you also know that “Georgetown University” admitted to profiting from the sale of 272 slaves in 1838 including men, women and children, virtually their entire slave community to two planters in Louisiana from Maryland Jesuits? With several tobacco plantations scattered across Maryland, the Catholic order owned at least 200 slaves.

It used the income from their labor to create Georgetown, part of an educational mission to spread and maintain Catholicism in the U.S. Guess how much they paid? 115,000, roughly over 3 million is current dollars. By the time the Jesuit priests of Maryland founded Georgetown College in 1789, they were among the biggest slave owners in the colony. With several tobacco plantations scattered across Maryland, the Catholic order owned at least 200 slaves. It used the income from their labor to create Georgetown, part of an educational mission to spread and maintain Catholicism in the U.S. Pause!!

I’m trying to digest this elemental statement.  The slaves were sold by “Jesuit priests”, who used the money to pay off debts incurred by the university. Remember, these priests deemed to be holy and are Christians. Georgetown announced it will offer descendants of those 272 slaves an advantage in admissions. That’s the compensation for selling the blacks; “Free Admission” wow!!! Where are our Integrity, Dignity and Honor? Students at many universities came from slave-holding families. According to Princeton’s report, 40% of Princeton’s student body came from slave states in the years before the Civil War. The war of the Mind is real.

Columbia University, which released a report in January about its connections to slavery, at least half of the university’s 10 presidents between 1754 and 1865 owned slaves at some point in their lives. Do you know and can you believe that? Reason with Me. I repeat myself again, can you believe that? 1, 2, 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 owned slaves at one point in their Life. Interesting!!!

The preliminary report addresses Columbia’s ties to slavery before 1865, when the school was called King’s College, and how they profits from the slave trade helped fund the university’s early days.

Profits from slavery and related industries helped fund some of the most prestigious schools in the Northeast, including Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and Yale. And in many southern states including the University of Virginia enslaved people built college campuses and served faculty and students. It still dawned on me to wrap my head on this factual historical event.

It’s feels like one of those fictional stories to provide contents to its audience. This happened on planet earth. My people in the diaspora and in Africa should hear me out as I plea my case. Hypothetically speaking, how would your conscience speaks well of you if you are to discover that the school you currently attend was structured and build off the sweat and back of your ancestors without any compensation, how would you feel? What will be your next plan of action?

Do you also know that « Yale inherited a small slave plantation in Rhode Island that it used to fund its first graduate programs and its first scholarships,”? « It aggressively sought out opportunities to benefit from the slave economies of New England and the broader Atlantic world. » I hope you see a pattern here. Why would they hide such tedious crucial events that can ultimately shape the future of the black race for the better?

Do you see why I say education is no power, money is not power, power is not power but KNOWLEDGE is POWER. Now, you see why they hide this important history? I see the western hemisphere, especially U.S.A (Under Satan Authority) as a Weak Empire. No offense to white folks, I am speaking based on Truth just to impact knowledge to the mind of the blacks. The greatness of this empire which America is the extension of was built by slaves and the less privilege that has no voice no will of their own.

Harvard was the first institution of higher learning in America, founded in 1636. Slavery and the slave economy thread through the first 150 years of its history. Slaves made beds and meals for Harvard presidents. The sons of wealthy Southern plantation owners became prominent men on campus. And many of the school’s major donors in its first centuries made their fortunes in industries either based on, or connected to, slavery and that’s a fact. What a treasure.

(Random)Early benefactors who gave money to Brown and Harvard, for instance, made their fortunes running slave ships to Africa and milling cotton from plantations in the American South. Georgetown could afford to offer free tuition to its earliest students by virtue of the unpaid labor of Jesuit-owned slaves on plantations in Maryland. At the University of Virginia founded and designed by Thomas Jefferson slaves cooked and cleaned for the sons of the Southern gentry.

Today, a growing movement to confront this legacy is being spurred by student protests and campus leaders reacting to high-profile racial conflict that has recently beset the nation.

The result has been historical investigations, university commissions, conferences, memorials, and, at Georgetown, a handful of the descendants of enslaved people arriving as first-year students at the institution that owned their ancestors. Do the Blacks and the rest of the planet know that « The story of the American college is largely the story of the rise of the slave economy in the Atlantic world, »?

If I was to tell you that up to date, there is no single accounting of how much money flowed from the slave economy into treasures of American higher education. I also suspect that many institutions are reluctant to examine this past. « There’s not a lot of upside for them. You know these aren’t great fundraising stories, » The truth will be exposed.

The two gray slate headstones stand just yards apart.

They look like many of the thousand or so other markers in the Old Burying Ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Each has a name and a date chiseled into the surface and a skull-and-wings emblem — a symbol dating to medieval times — carved at the top.

The markers are modest, smaller than others, yet profoundly unusual, the only ones in the cemetery. They sit atop the graves of African American slaves.

One reads: « Here lyes the body of Cicely, Negro, late servant to the Reverend Minister William Brattle; she died April 8, 1714. Being 15 years old. »

The other: « Jane a Negro servant to Andrew Bordman Esquire Died 1740/1 Aged 22 years & three months. »

The stones are significant for another reason: The Brattle and Bordman families had close ties to Harvard College, which has a long and deep connection to slavery.

The evidence of Harvard’s historic links to slavery are there, if you know where to look for them. Jane and Cicely make for unusual clues, according to a Cambridge historian. Few enslaved people were buried with expensive slate headstones. But Jane and Cicely were honored in death after loyally serving prominent Harvard men

A Long Legacy Of Slavery

In fact, Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery, in 1641.

Sugar plantations in the Caribbean devoted most of their land to growing cane. They imported grain, meat, codfish and other supplies from New England. Ship owners in New England hauled back barrels of molasses to make rum. Then they shipped the rum to Africa to pay for slaves. New England merchants used part of the profits from this triangular trade to finance Harvard and other schools.

Over time, cotton from slave plantations in the Caribbean and the American South entered the mix. Cotton fed the great textile mills owned by the Lowell family of Boston, which had extensive ties to Harvard, including a Harvard president and a prominent professor. Banks in Boston and New York supplied loans to southern plantation owners to buy slaves and seed; northern insurance companies underwrote slave voyages to Africa and the lives of enslaved people.

« Enslavement and the slave economy was the road for upward mobility for a lot of white Bostonians in the colonial era, and then the antebellum era. And part of becoming respectable is donating to a place like Harvard, »

« Harvard was directly complicit in slavery from the college’s earliest days, » « This history and its legacy have shaped our institution in ways we have yet to fully understand. »

MOMENT OF SILENCE OF MY ANCESTORS THAT SUFFERED AND STRIPPED OFF FROM THEIR FREE WILL AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSORS TO BUILD UNIVERSITIES THAT ALL RACES PROFIT FROM. I STAND AS AN AVOCATE FOR TRWTH FOR THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE THAT THE WORLD WOULD KNOW AS TRWTHRADIO CONTRIBUTE TO SPREAD THE SACRED EVENT FOR THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING THAT SLAVERY HAS PLAYED IN AMERICA AND WORLD HISTORY, AS AN EXAMPLE TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING AS THEY PURSUE THEIR OWN INVESTIGATION.

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