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Slavery and the University of Maryland

John Fea   |  October 13, 2009 Leave a Comment

Inside Higher Ed reports on the findings of a year-long study to uncover the University of Maryland’s ties to slavery. The study, conducted by noted historian of slavery Ira Berlin and the students in his two semester course on slavery at Maryland, concluded that slaves did not build or work at the institution, but many of the university’s prominent founders were indeed slaveholders.

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