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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slavery and white supremacy are baked into American history, so no, you can't go somewhere that existed at the time of chattel slavery and think "No taint here!" But all plantations were economic engines that depended on slavery for their existence. Universities could exists without slavery (although arguably they depended on other forms of inequality). So while I agree that we should be mindful of past and current injustices, you can look at elements of some universities and see ways people did good without harming others. Everything at a plantation can be divided into oppressor and oppressed.[/quote] Universities [i]could [/i]have existed without slavery but they didn't. Without slavery, they would have remained small and regional, if they existed at all since it was the only the wealthy who could afford to attend - and who were the wealthy in America? Those who profited from slavery, including northern merchants and manufacturers whose commerce was tied to the slave owners in the south. The entire American economy depended on slavery. Read the Brown University Report and you'll have a better understanding of that and how universities reinforced rationalizations for slavery by their 'racial research'. More than 75% of southern whites did not own slaves of those who did, only 1% owned 40 or more. The majority of white southerns who did not own slaves were small farmers. So, you are correct in saying plantations (large farms/homesteads) would not exist without slavery but the same can be said about the universities. Without the 'benefits' of slavery, they would have been just as small and unnotable as universities would have been without them. Plantations and universities became wealthy, prestigious and elite for the very same reasons - slavery. You can't excuse universities by saying some of the 'did good'. That's apologist language. https://www.theroot.com/slavery-by-the-numbers-1790874492[/quote]
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