Now, more than a decade later, Mr. Wilder, a history professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a new book, “Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” which argues provocatively that the nation’s early colleges, alongside church and state, were “the third pillar of a civilization based on bondage.” nytimes/2013/10/19/books/ebony-and-ivy-about-how-slavery-helped-universities-grow.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
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