Universities Studying Slavery

Descendants of people enslaved by St. Louis University Jesuits call on the university to erect a monument to commemorate their ancestors.

Washington University students and faculty have lifted the veil from its co-founder William Greenleaf Eliot, who for years was known as an abolitionist. Although he held anti-slavery views, he vehemently opposed abolitionism and did not see a future for freed Black people in America.

Washington University is the latest on a growing list of universities and colleges nationwide looking into the role they may have played in slavery.