Harvard — Massachusetts
Much like many of the schools on the list, Harvard was established on land that was left to the school by a wealthy plantation owner. Early in the school’s history, enslaved people were used to serve the children of other wealthy white people while they were on campus.
Yale — Connecticut
While the university celebrates what it has deemed a “long history of activism in the face of slavery,” three scholars at the school wanted to draw attention to the not-so-pretty past. Despite past faculty members being known abolitionists, the school relied heavily on slave-trading money for its first scholarships and library endowment, the scholars discovered, according to The New York Times.
