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Yale Indian Slaves

Yale University’s connection to slavery

Yale University is named after Elihu Yale. It was founded with his money. Yale was a colonial East India Company (EIC) Governor of Madras. By looting and colonizing India, he amassed a lot of wealth. Under his leadership, EIC sold thousands of Indians as slaves.

Source:

  1. https://twitter.com/BharadwajSpeaks/status/1430868450021314580
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20141108031612/http://histi3.commons.yale.edu/2014/11/01/elihu-yale-was-a-slave-trader/