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1. • • Yale served as the all-powerful governor-president of the British East India Company in Madras in southern India (present-day Chennai) in the 17th Century and it was a gift of about £1,162 ($1,486) that earned him the honour of having the university named after him.
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   Did Yale have a history with slavery?

   • Led by Yale historian David Blight, a team of researchers delved into the "university's history with slavery, role of slaves in construction of a Yale building or whose labour enriched prominent leaders who made gifts to Yale", the university said in a statement.

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   Why was Yale College named after Elihu Yale?

   • The money raised by selling them was used to construct a new three-storey building which was named Yale College in his honour. Historian and family member Rodney Horace Yale who wrote a biography of Elihu Yale in the 19th Century says his "donation made the precarious existence of Yale college a blessed certainty".

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   Is Yale a slave school?

   • Slavery is hardly a new topic at Yale. In 2001, for Yale’s 300th anniversary, a group of graduate students issued an independent report on the school’s connections to slavery, which focused on the fact that many of its residential colleges were named after slaveholders.

   Yale Apologizes for Its Connections to Slavery

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   Why did Yale apologize for slavery?

   • On February 16, Yale University issued a formal apology for its historical association with slavery. “Today … we recognize our university’s historical role in and associations with slavery … and we apologize for the ways that Yale’s leaders, over the course of our early history, participated in slavery,” the Ivy League school said in a statement.

   Yale apologises for role in slavery: How the slave trade in India

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   Why did Yale get its name?

   • Yale served as the all-powerful governor-president of the British East India Company in Madras in southern India (present-day Chennai) in the 17th Century and it was a gift of about £1,162 ($1,486) that earned him the honour of having the university named after him.

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   Why did Elihu Yale change its name?

   • It started on the website 4chan on June 10. Arguing that Elihu Yale was “a prominent slave trader,” an anonymous poster proposed a campaign to compel Yale to change its name as a way of “cheapening the brand” of an institution that “undoubtedly bears some culpability in the unrest we see today.”

   A renaming question very close to home - Yale Alumni Magazine

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Elihu_YaleElihu Yale - Wikipedia

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   In the 21st century Yale University's historic associations with the slave trade have been re-evaluated. In 2017, the university determined to rename Calhoun College, which honoured the white supremacist and pro-slavery leader John C. Calhoun. [174]

4. digitalhistories.yctl.org › elihu-yale-was-a-slave-traderElihu Yale was a Slave Trader - Digital Histories

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   Nov 1, 2014 · Historians have long pointed out that Yale (the University) is deeply implicated in the institution of slavery. Many of its prominent buildings are named after slaveholders or slavery apologists. It housed so many southern students that it briefly seceded from the Union at the start of the Civil War.

5. indianexpress.com › article › explainedYale apologises for role in slavery: How the slave trade in ...

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   Feb 20, 2024 · One of America's most prestigious universities is named after East India Company official Elihu Yale, who spent over a quarter of a century in India. Among other things, he made a considerable fortune through the slave trade.

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6. ysrp.yale.edu › elihu-yaleElihu Yale | The Yale & Slavery Research Project

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   Yale University - now one of the oldest and wealthiest institutions in the United States - has commissioned its own investigation of Elihu Yale and his ties to slavery as part of a larger initiative to uncover the relationship between Yale University and slavery.

7. yalealumnimagazine.org › articles › 5216-a-renamingA renaming question very close to home - Yale Alumni Magazine

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   Arguing that Elihu Yale was “a prominent slave trader,” an anonymous poster proposed a campaign to compel Yale to change its name as a way of “cheapening the brand” of an institution that “undoubtedly bears some culpability in the unrest we see today.”.

8. www.nytimes.com › 2024/02/16 › artsYale Apologizes for Its Connections to Slavery

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   Feb 16, 2024 · Yale, founded in 1701, is the latest institution of higher learning to formally address its historic entanglements with slavery, along with its role in maintaining the racial inequalities that...