Shackles and Ivy: The Secret History of How Slavery Helped Build America’s Elite Colleges download: Video Audio Get CD/DVD More Formats Related Stories Postshow_wilder Pt. 2: Craig Steven Wilder on Ebony & Ivy, Race, Slavery and U.S. Universities Traces3.jpg Filmmaker Uncovers Her Family’s Shocking Slave-Trading History, Urges Americans to Explore Own Roots Topics Race in America, African-American History, Education Guests Craig Steven Wilder, author of the book Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. Wilder is an MIT professor of American history and has taught at Williams College and Dartmouth College. His previous books include A Covenant with Color and In the Company of Black Men. Related Historian Taylor Branch on the March on Washington and the Kennedys’ Aversion to Dr. King’s Struggle Aug 29, 2013 | Story 50 Years After March on Washington, 1970 Documentary King: A Filmed Record Captures MLK’s Journey Aug 28, 2013 | Story Civil Rights Pioneer Gloria Richardson, 91, on How Women Were Silenced at 1963 March on Washington Aug 27, 2013 | Story Links Pt. 2: Craig Steven Wilder on Ebony & Ivy, Race, Slavery and U.S. Universities “Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of Americas Universities. By Craig Steven Wilder (Bloomsbury) Brown University Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice DONATE → This is viewer supported news Printer-friendly A new book 10 years in the making examines how many major U.S. universities — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Rutgers, Williams and the University of North Carolina, among others — are drenched in the sweat, and sometimes the blood, of Africans brought to the United States as slaves. In Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology American history professor Craig Steven Wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up together. When you think about the colonial world, until the American Revolution, there is only one college in the South, William & Mary ... The other eight colleges were all Northern schools, and they’re actually located in key sites, for the most part, of the merchant economy where the slave traders had come to power and rose as the financial and intellectual backers of new culture of the colonies, Wilder says. Click here to watch part 2 of this interview. Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the country’s major universities—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Williams, the University of North Carolina, to name just a few—are drenched in sweat, and sometimes the blood, of Africans brought here as slaves. The book is called Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. In it, MIT history professor Craig Steven Wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up together. He writes, the American campus stood as a silent monument to slavery. Well, this history is silent no more. Professor Craig Steven Wilder joins us here in New York. Welcome to Democracy Now! CRAIG STEVEN WILDER: Thank you very much. AMY GOODMAN: So, talk about America’s most elite universities. What relation do they have to slavery? CRAIG STEVEN WILDER: I think there are multiple relationships. The first and probably most poignant, most provocative, is the relationship to the slave trade itself. In the middle of the 18th century, from 1746 to 1769—fewer than 25 years, less than a quarter century—the number of colleges in the British colonies triples from three to nine. The original three were Harvard, Yale and William & Mary, and all of a sudden there were nine by 1769. And it triples in that 25-year period. That 25-year period actually coincides with the height of the slave trade. It’s precisely the rise and the elaboration of the Atlantic economy, based on the African slave trade, that allows for this sort of fantastic articulation of new growth of the institutional infrastructure of the colonies. AMY GOODMAN: So, let’s talk specifically about particular universities. CRAIG STEVEN WILDER: Sure.
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