5 Colleges You Might Not Know Are Tied to Slaveholders

“All of them survived precisely because they managed to tie themselves to parts of the Atlantic slave economy,” he says. This dark history could be easily discovered, Wilder says, but institutions didn’t want to confront it until being pressed in recent years by students, professors, and activists: “Part of the power of race in the United States is the capacity to have things that are known remain untold.”