UNC opens records on slavery

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By The Associated Press  |  November 2, 2005
HISTORY LESSON: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is
displaying newly uncovered evidence of its past ties to the slave trade.
OTHER SCHOOLS: The faculty senate at the University of Alabama has
apologized to descendants of slaves connected to the school.
OUTSIDE ACADEMIA: Some banks and financial services firms have made
donations after conducting investigations into their own past ties to slavery.

UNC-Chapel Hill Opens Records On Slavery Ties
http://www.wral.com/news/5204345/detail.html
POSTED: 12:16 pm EDT October 29, 2005

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- In the early decades of the nation's oldest public
university, students at the University of North Carolina had servants that
kindled fires in their rooms and cut wood to fuel their stoves.
And at the school that's so proud of its history, archivists have uncovered
and are now displaying publicly evidence that those servants were slaves.
"I think it's important for us to know our own history and to be honest
about it," said Chancellor James Moeser.
"This university was built by slaves and free blacks," Moeser added. "We
need to be candid about that, acknowledge their contributions."
The University of North Carolina, chartered in 1789, is among several
institutions of higher learning, joining banks and other financial firms,
that have taken recent steps to research and recognize their historic ties
to the slave trade.

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UNC opens records on slavery

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