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March 31, 2016

Harvard to Install Plaque Acknowledging Legacy of Slavery on Campus
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And the president of Harvard University, Drew Faust, has announced she
will install a plaque to commemorate four enslaved people who lived and
worked at Wadsworth House, the one-time home of Harvard presidents. In
an article for The Harvard Crimson, Faust wrote, "Slavery is an aspect
of Harvard's past that has rarely been acknowledged or invoked. ... But
Harvard was directly complicit in America's system of racial bondage
from the College's earliest days."
Topics:Slavery

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