WASHINGTON – Yale University on Friday issued an apology for its connection to slavery after a number of years of analysis and research that it mentioned it undertook into its formative ties to the slave commerce.
“Today, on behalf of Yale University, we recognize our university’s historical role in and associations with slavery, as well as the labor, the experiences, and the contributions of enslaved people to our university’s history, and we apologize for the ways that Yale’s leaders, over the course of our early history, participated in slavery,” the US academic establishment mentioned in an announcement.
In latest years, a rising variety of establishments have formally apologized for his or her historic position within the transatlantic slave commerce. A want to confront racist legacies within the US picked up momentum in 2020 after the dying of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer.
Since October 2020, members of the Yale & Slavery Research Project have carried out analysis into hyperlinks to slavery by the New Haven, Connecticut-based college, making their findings public.
“Although there were no known records of Yale University owning enslaved people, many of Yale’s Puritan founders owned enslaved people, as did a significant number of Yale’s early leaders and other prominent members of the university community, and the Research Project has identified over 200 of these enslaved people,” the assertion mentioned.
“Acknowledging and apologizing for this history are only part of the path forward,” the assertion added. —Reuters
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