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Yale University own seven portraits and a snuffbox depicting Yale; three of the paintings depict enslaved people. Self-portraits featuring enslaved people were popular during his lifetime, although there is no proof Yale ever owned slaves. [2] George Washington, 1st President of the United States, had many portraits of himself with slaves. [3]
Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator. ... [85] [6] Evidence as to whether Yale personally owned slaves, ...
Elihu Yale and family with enslaved child. Yale University is named for slave trader and merchant Elihu Yale. According to historian Craig Steven Wilder, Yale also "inherited a small slave plantation in Rhode Island that it used to fund its first graduate programs and its first scholarships... [the university] aggressively sought out ...
Corey Menafee, a former employee of Yale University, was fired after breaking a window featuring a depiction of two slaves picking cotton. Yale University worker destroys stained-glass window ...
Elihu's house. Elihu Club is housed in a three-story white clapboard house built between 1762 and 1776 at 175 Elm Street. [14] [15] This house is the oldest of all of Yale's secret society buildings, and purportedly one of the oldest original structures in the United States still in regular use.
Elihu Yale with Members of his Family and an Enslaved Child; F. Freeing of the Slaves; G. ... The Slave Market (Boulanger) The Slave Ship; U. Uncle Tom and Little Eva ...
Commenting for the Wall Street Journal, Roger Kimball pointed out that Yale's namesake, Elihu Yale, was a slave trader, and questioned how Yale can defend the name of the university against similar moral arguments.
Elihu Yale of Wallingford was born in 1747, to Theophilus Yale and Azubah Wolf, members of the Yale family. [1] [2] [3] His grandfather, Capt. Theophilus Yale, was a magistrate of the city, while his great-grandfather, Capt. Thomas Yale, was one of the founders of Wallingford, Connecticut.