Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Blight, David W.
Title:
Yale and slavery : a history / David W. Blight with the Yale and Slavery Research Project ; foreword by Peter Salovey.
Alternate Title(s):
Yale & slavery : a history
Published / Created:
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024]

©2024
Physical Description:
xiii, 432 pages : 54 illustrations (black & white), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Published with assistance of Yale University's Office of the President and financial assistance from the Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund.
Contents:
War, slavery, and Christianity -- Founders -- Interlude : names of the enslaved -- West Indian trade, Connecticut, and the college -- Slavery and the American Revolution -- Interlude : gradual emancipation in Connecticut -- Yale in the Early Republic -- The 1831 Black college -- La Amistad -- Antebellum Yale and its Abolitionist discontents -- Yale and New Haven in the Civil War -- Interlude : a Yale family in slavery and freedom -- Black students at Yale -- Interlude : Black employees at Yale -- Embracing the white South -- Yale's Civil War memorial -- Interlude : the birth of a nation in New Haven, 1915.
Subject Terms:
Yale University -- History. | Universities and colleges -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History. | Enslaved persons -- Connecticut -- History. | Slave trade -- History. | Slavery -- Connecticut -- History. | Slavery -- History. | New Haven (Conn.) -- History.
Contributors:
Salovey, Peter, writer of foreword. | Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund, sponsoring body. | Yale University. Office of the President, contributor. | Yale University. Yale & Slavery Research Project, contributor.