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GLC Annual Conference: Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective
Thursday, October 28, 2021 4:30 PM EDT to Saturday, October 30, 2021
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 Yale Club of DC 

 

GLC Annual Conference:
Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective

 

Thursday, October 28, 2021 - Saturday, October 30, 2021


This meeting will be conducted on Zoom.  Instructions will be provided upon registration

Commissioned by President Peter Salovey, a working group of historians, librarians, student researchers, and community members is conducting a thorough research study of Yale University’s historical relationships with slavery, racism, and their aftermaths. 

On October 28-30, 2021 the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale will host a conference on “Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective,” presenting the research findings in process. Topics will include the university’s 18th century theological roots, the economics of slavery-created wealth, the place of Southern slaveholders at Yale, medical and scientific legacies of race at Yale, forces of abolition at the university, the labor history of the building of the institution over three centuries, and Yale’s extraordinary reconciliationist Civil War memorial, dedicated in 1915. The conference will engage the Yale and New Haven communities as well as the national context of reckoning with the past.

For full schedule visit: https://glc.yale.edu/events/upcoming-events/2021-annual-conference


Support the Yale Club of Washington, DC

The Yale Club of Washington, DC offers this event to our members and alumni.  However, we do ask for your support in one or both of the following ways: 

1)      Please become a member if you are not one already

2)      Donate to the Yale Club of Washington, DC (see option on registration page). 

Membership dues and donations are both critical income sources for the Club, which enable Club operations, programs, and financial viability.

       

Contact: Caroline Drees - [email protected]