In landmark report, Harvard publishes first full accounting of the school's historical ties to slavery

 if Harvard can do a report on accountability vis-a-vis slavery, can Medford do a report on its failure to account to the citizens in regards to slavery, finances and civil rights violations?

This publication notes that we believe that Neil Osborne is standing in the way of civil rights in Medford.  Do something, Mayor Lungo-Koehn
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In landmark report, Harvard publishes first full accounting of the school's historical ties to slavery

Harvard University, seeking to confront what it termed “now incontestable truths,” published the first full accounting of the school’s historical ties to slavery Tuesday, and acknowledged its complicity in 19th century “race science” and 20th century racial discrimination.   https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/26/metro/landmark-report-harvard-confronts-its-ties-slavery/  Harvard University, seeking to confront what it termed “now incontestable truths,” published the first full accounting of the school’s historical ties to slavery Tuesday, and acknowledged its complicity in 19th century “race science” and 20th century racial discrimination. “Our commitment to truth means that we must embrace it even when it makes us uncomfortable or causes us pain,” Harvard President Lawrence Bacow wrote in a letter informing the university community about the findings, in which he cites Harvard’s motto, Veritas, or truth. To meet Harvard’s “moral responsibility to do what we can to address the persistent corrosive effects of slavery,” he wrote, the university will spend $100 million to provide educational opportunities for communities descended from slaves and to continue researching slavery and its legacy in the modern world. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2017/09/04/shackled-legacy Shackled Legacy History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities

September 4, 2017

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Three colleges make amends

• Harvard
• Georgetown
• University of Virginia

Dozens of American colleges and universities are investigating their historic ties to the slave trade and debating how to atone.

Profits from slavery and related industries helped fund some of the most prestigious schools in the Northeast, including Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and Yale. And in many southern states — including the University of Virginia — enslaved people built college campuses and served faculty and students.

Today a growing movement to confront this legacy is being spurred by student protests and campus leaders reacting to high-profile racial conflict that has recently beset the nation. The result has been historical investigations, university commissions, conferences, memorials, and, at Georgetown, a handful of the descendants of enslaved people arriving as first-year students at the institution that owned their ancestors.

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Plantations Practiced Modern Management

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• Caitlin Rosenthal  https://hbr.org/2013/09/plantations-practiced-modern-management

From the Magazine (September 2013)

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The finding: Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than the factories thought to be their originators.

The research: Caitlin Rosenthal pored over hundreds of account books from U.S. and West Indian plantations that operated from 1750 to 1860. She found that their owners employed advanced accounting and management tools, including depreciation and standardized efficiency metrics, to manage their land and their slaves. After comparing their practices with those described in the account books of northern factories, Rosenthal concluded that many plantations took a more scientific approach to management than the factories did.

The challenge: Did historians get the genesis of management wrong? Professor Rosenthal, defend your research.