Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

by Craig Steven Wilder

EPUB, 2014

Publication

Bloomsbury Press (2014), Edition: Reprint, 432 pages

ISBN

1608194027 / 9781608194025

Tags

slavery, African Diaspora, universities and higher education, slavery and the university

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Notes

CONTENTS
Prologue : a Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound

Part I. Slavery and the rise of the American college. The edges of the empire
"Bonfires of the Negros"
"The very name of a West-Indian"
Ebony and ivy

Part II. Race and the rise of the American College. Whitening the Promised Land
"All students & all Americans"
"On the bodily and mental inferiority of the Negro"
"Could they be sent back to Africa"
Epilogue : cotton comes to Harvard.

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