History of slavery at the University of Maryland

A new report shows that the slave economy was deeply entrenched in the origins of the University of Maryland, College Park, including enslaved people living and working on land that forms a large section of the current campus.
A group of researchers and staff members at the state’s flagship university, working on what is known as the 1856 Project, outlined how the university benefitted from slavery in a 52-page analysis, “Reconstructing the Truth,” with $900,000 in funding from the university’s first Black president, Darryl Pines.

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Reporting by John-John Williams IV.
Video by Krishna Sharma.

DISCLOSURE: Krishna Sharma is employed by the University of Maryland as an adjunct professor.

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