“Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery”
Date: 2022
Source: Harvard University
Members of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Tomiko Brown-Nagin; Sven Beckert; Annette Gordon-Reed; Stephen Gray; Evelynn M. Hammonds; Nancy F. Koehn; Meira Levinson; Tiya Miles; Martha Minow; Maya Sen; Daniel Albert Smith; David R. Williams; William Julius Wilson; Paul Farmer
Harvard’s motto, Veritas, inscribed on gates, doorways, and sculptures all over campus, demands of us truth.1 This report, prepared by the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, advances our quest for truth through scholarship about the University’s historic ties to slavery—direct, financial, and intellectual.