5 εμβληματα της Αμερικης που συνδεονται ιστορικα με τη δουλεια

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Yale University

Elihu Yale was a slave trader who profited from the sale of human lives

The school's president told the Yale Daily News in June that there has been no consideration in changing the school's name.
Yale has also launched the Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal to help researchers and students "find primary sources related to slavery, abolition and resistance."

Yale has also addressed a building named after a leader who supported slavery. In 2017, after months of campus protests, the school changed the name of one of its undergraduate residential colleges to Grace Hopper College from Calhoun College, named after John C. Calhoun, a white supremacist who called slavery a "positive good."
Many US universities also have ties to slavery. Harvard and Princeton had presidents who owned enslaved people. At public universities like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia, enslaved people worked on campus or helped build campuses. Some schools, like Georgetown University, sold enslaved people to pay off debts and keep the school running.

Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey

Though Jack Daniel never owned enslaved people, he did learn to make whiskey in Tennessee from an enslaved person named Nathan "Nearest" Green, who was owned by a Lutheran minister, according to the company.
Daniel bought the business from the minister, then hired Green as his first head distiller.

The New York Times shed light on Green's story in 2016. Since then, Uncle Nearest, a new whiskey brand honoring Green, has emerged. The whiskey is an "all minority-led business," according to its website.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/u ... index.html


Wall Street

Before Wall Street became the world's largest stock exchange, the location thrived as a slave market between 1711 and 1762, according to JSTOR Daily, a digital library.
In 2015, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio commemorated a marker to the enslaved people who laid the foundation for Wall Street.

"This place reminds of us of one of the worst chapters in our history," de Blasio said at the time. "Three-hundred-four years ago, with the approval of the city government, this became a place for buying and selling and renting human beings."

New York City's first lady, Chirlane McCray, said slavery built the foundation of the city and its slave market was rivaled only by the market in Charleston, South Carolina.



The White House and US Capitol Building

Former First Lady Michelle Obama caused a stir in 2016 when she said enslaved people built the White House. She wasn't wrong.

Construction on the original White House began in 1792. Officials planned to import European workers to help build the structure, but recruitment didn't go as planned so they turned to Black people, free and enslaved, according to the White House Historical Association.

The US Capitol building was also constructed with the labor of enslaved people. The building's construction started in 1793. Like with the White House, officials struggled to find skilled labor so they turned to enslaved people, who were often rented from owners. Congress unveiled a marker in 2012 honoring the enslaved people who built the Capitol, according to the Architect of the Capitol.

"So when you see that slave labor was used on the Capitol and White House, it's not just about the personal relationships between the founders and slavery, it's about a national and institutional matter that the government itself was involved in slavery," said Adam Rothman, a Georgetown University history professor who specializes in slavery.
After Obama's 2016 comments, the White House Historical Association began aggressively researching slavery and its relationship with US presidents and the White House, said Matthew Costello, a senior historian at the historical association.

https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-cam ... ion%20Hall.

George Washington

Though George Washington's ties to slavery are fairly well known, the extent of those connections may surprise some.
Enslaved people formed part of Washington -- literally.

Though folklore depicts Washington with wooden teeth, there's no evidence to support that claim, according to historian Alexis Coe, who wrote the best-selling biography "You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington."
The first president's mouth, Coe said, was full of the teeth of walruses, hippopotamuses and enslaved people. Washington paid the enslaved people an under-market rate for their teeth, Coe said.
Coe said Washington also signed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, which allowed enslavers to arrest fugitive enslaved people and reclaim them as property.
"The propensity to put Washington on a pedestal does us no favors," Coe said. "It keeps us removed from the man himself, because it's a dishonest reading of his life."