The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal

Harrold, Stanley

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“…His former student John C. Calhoun, one of South Carolina's wealthiest slaveholders and an eventual states' rights champion, helped him launch the American Journal of Science and Arts in 1818, which soon became the nation's premier scientific journal and was the platform Silliman used to distribute the Yale Report. 59 Silliman's leadership at Yale and his participation in writing the Yale Report were quite compatible with his devotion to colonizationist causes. According to Hugh Davis, Silliman's close associate Leonard Bacon helped shape his views.…”

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Race and the Yale Report of 1828

Todorinova

2024

Hist. of Ed. Quarterly

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This essay recontextualizes the Yale Report of 1828, arguing that the report’s advocacy for classical liberal education should be understood alongside the racial concerns of its authors, some of whom were well-known colonizationists who viewed African American education as a threat to New Haven’s social and economic stability. The Yale Report’s vision for leadership and economic success not only excluded African Americans by default, but created a lasting binary that defined Black educational opportunities in the nineteenth century and beyond. The essay considers the near overlap between the writing of the Yale Report and the failed proposal to establish an African American men’s college in New Haven in 1831, placing the document within a key period in the history of American higher education in which education became highly commodified and racialized. Building upon scholarship on the Yale Report that has already considered its neorepublican aims, this essay opens the possibility of viewing the document beyond its immediate concerns with curricular reform and contemplating the elusive connections between American higher education, race, and power.

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Section: Yale's Opposition: Colonizationism and Racial Propagandamentioning

confidence: 91%

Race and the Yale Report of 1828

Todorinova

2024

Hist. of Ed. Quarterly

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The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress by Eric Herschthal

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