Harvard’s corporate age and wealth trace directly to enslavement profits

Evidence

“People need to know that Harvard isn’t just a university,” he wrote. “It’s literally the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere, and…they continue to behave as such. If Harvard has become the wealthiest university in the world, it has done so in no small part from profiting from the enslavement and exploitation of others.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1275

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying: is Harvard literally the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere, and what exactly does it mean to behave ‘as such’?
• SHARE: For someone working on institutional wealth and slavery profiteering—the framing of Harvard as a corporation rather than an academy reframes the reparations question as corporate liability.