![]() ![]() ![]() Through specific examples, Wilder shows that the establishment, development, and dominance of Ivy League colleges were an extension of the larger colonial project. Wilder demonstrates that "the academy never stood apart from American slavery-in fact, it stood beside church and state as the third pillar of a civilization built on bondage" (11). ![]() Craig Wilder's Ebony and Ivy highlights the connections between America's first colleges, race-based slavery, and the Atlantic economy-particularly the transatlantic slave trade and the commodities that enslaved Africans produced and consumed. Cloth, $30.00 paper, $20.00.) During recent slavery reparations debates in New England, several Ivy League schools began to investigate their ties to slavery. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder (review) Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven.Įbony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. ![]()
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