“Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective,” the 2021 GLC annual conference, examined the University’s involvement with slavery, as uncovered by Yale and Slavery working group members and considered by scholars from Yale and beyond. The conference also engaged with New Haven communities in its... |
 Directed and edited by Tubyez Cropper
Written by Tubyez Cropper & Michael Morand
Produced by Beinecke Library
Narrator: Charles Warner Jr.
Other voices: John Monahan, Tubyez Cropper, Michael Morand
Special Thanks:
• Alvin Ashiatey for research and design consultation
• Claire Barnes for filming... |
 “Gleaming in the Shadow of Slavery: A Conversation with Descendants of African Americans of Old Yale” held on September 16, 2021, presented unique perspectives shared by descendants of early African-American staff and students at Yale, to highlight Black men and women whose lives intersected with... |
 “Yale and Slavery in Historical Perspective,” the 2021 GLC annual conference held October 28-30, 2021, examined the University’s involvement with slavery, as uncovered by Yale and Slavery working group members and considered by scholars from Yale and beyond. The conference also engaged with New... |
 On a summer day in 2016, a worker in the dining hall at Calhoun College, a residential building on the campus of Yale University, broke a window. “I took a broomstick,” he later recounted, “and it was kind of high, and I climbed up and reached up and broke it” (1). He hit the pane twice before the... |
 Yale historian John Blasingame said it best in 1978 when he wrote: “The ghost of U.B. Phillips haunts us all.” Born in Georgia at the dawn of the twentieth century, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips is often credited as the first modern scholar of American slavery. His American Negro Slavery (1918) was the... |
 In the early period of European colonization of the western hemisphere, involuntary perpetual servitude—slavery—was generally accepted as a biblically ordained practice if the individuals enslaved were war captives or criminals. Although chattel slave-owning in seventeenth-century New England was... |
 One of the notable contributions of the Yale & Slavery Research Project will be the investigation of chattel slavery in eighteenth- century New Haven and in connection to Yale College. Many previous histories of Yale relegated slavery to the periphery of their narratives or ignored the subject... |
 The history of Elihu Yale’s donation to the preeminent college that was to become his namesake almost has a life and history of its own. When secondary authors have chosen to include an estimate of its value, there are two key figures commonly cited for Elihu’s donation to the College. Many cite... |
Charles McLinn, a joiner and carpenter by trade, worked full time as the head carpenter at Yale University, starting in the early postbellum period in New Haven. McLinn began his career at Yale University in 1870 and was employed by the university for 37 years.
McLinn excelled in carpentry, which... |