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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][size=9] [/size][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]W&M is older than several Ivys - founded in 1693, I think.

UVa says founded 1819, but I think classes did not start that year.

VT is much newer, created explicitly to be the land-grant university. [/quote]

UVA was built by enslaved people.  What about W&M (possibly) and VT (maybe too new?)[/quote]

YES, William & Mary, too. Vt wasn’t established until 1872.  However, other schools were built by enslaved people: Brown, Columbia, Barnard, Dartmouth, Barnard, U Penn, Hamilton, Harvard, Harvard Law, Johns Hopkins and Princeton, Rutgers, Furman and Yale.  All of these case studies can be found in the wiki article “Slavery at American Colleges and Universities”. Stanford studies also discuss slavery at Oberlin, Emory, and Alabama[/quote]

What wasn't built that way in that time period?  Factories, schools, houses, ports, roads, bridges, military installations?  What's the point being made?  That slavery existed?  What a news flash.  [/quote]

+1 some people just HAVE to have something to whine about.[/quote]

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