The “ Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery” report released Tuesday was compiled by a committee appointed in 2019 by Harvard President Lawrence S. as the prestigious institution pledges $100 million toward an endowment to rectify the injustices. The institution benefited from donations and financial ties to the slave trade all the way through the 20th century, according to the report.Ī new report is detailing Harvard University’s deep ties to slavery and racial discrimination in the U.S.Nathaniel Eaton, Harvard’s first president, owned a slave known only as “The Moor,” who likely served the university’s earliest students.

Harvard presidents and faculty enslaved more than 70 individuals, some of whom labored on campus, from the university’s founding in 1636 until slavery ended in Massachusetts in 1783.