Harvard’s wealth stems substantially from profiting off enslavement

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

• XREF: The reader’s framing: property law as the afterlife of slavery — institutional corporate personhood predating the modern university.