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Student Videos

Matthew Chuchul

“Camaraderie & Complicity: The Role of Harvard in Forging Bonds of Friendship between Northern & Southern Harvard Students in the Decade before the Civil War”

Balraj Gill

“Harvard and Its Abolitionists: How Debates on Slavery & the Emergence of Radical Abolitionism Shaped Policy & the University in the 1830s”

Jim Henle

“Harvard & the Justice of Slavery: The Executions of Mark & Phillis, 1755”

Learah Lockhart

“The Apprehensions of the President: President Josiah Quincy’s Interference in a Debate on Abolition in Harvard’s Divinity School”

Robert G. Mann

“Money & Memory: The Perkins Family Legacy”

Gary Pelissier

“Harvard’s Royall Legacy: Slavery & the Origins of the Harvard Law School”

Alexandra Rahman

“‘A Very Plain Businessman’: Edwin Farnsworth Atkins & the Birth of the Harvard Botanical Station on the Former Slave Plantation Soledad”

Kaitlin Terry

“Elmwood & Slavery: Confronting Harvard’s Hidden History with Full Authenticity”

Shelly Thomas

“Chains in the Yard: A Discussion of Slave Owners & Slave Life on Harvard’s Campus between 1636 & 1780”

Brandi Waters

“Interstitial Memory: Exploring the Underground Railroad in Harvard’s Warren House”

Zoe Weinberg

“The Incalculable Legacy: Race Science at Harvard in the 19th & 20th Centuries”

Avery Williamson

“Slavery’s Legacy at Harvard”

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