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Texas seceded from the United States in 1861 and joined the Confederate States of America on the eve of the American Civil War. It replaced the pro-Union governor, Sam Houston, in the process. During the war, slavery in Texas was little affected, and prices for enslaved people remained high until the last few months of the war.
Yale's Berkeley College is named for slave owner George Berkeley. In 1998, the university established the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. The legacy of slavery at Yale was addressed in the February 2002 edition of the Yale Alumni Magazine. [115]
Texas' annexation as a state that tolerated slavery had caused tension in the United States among slave states and those that did not allow slavery. The tension was partially defused with the Compromise of 1850 , in which Texas ceded some of its territory to the federal government to become non-slave-owning areas but gained El Paso.
Yale also plans to release “Yale and Slavery: A History,” a book by professor David W. Blight with the Yale and Slavery Research Project.
Yale University has issued a formal apology for its historical ties to slavery.
In 2020 Yale's president, Peter Salovey, launched the Yale and Slavery Research Project to explore the university's links with slavery and colonialism, including Elihu Yale's central role. [7] The project was led by David W. Blight , director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition , and published its ...
He remained at Yale University as a professor of history, African-American studies, and American studies for 29 years. Blassingame wrote and edited several books, including New Perspectives on Black Studies (1971), The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South (1972), Black New Orleans, 1860–1880 (1973), and Frederick Douglass ...
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