JOSIAH QUINCY III

Written when he was the President of Harvard. Harvard and most of the established schools, though pretending to free inquiry in all academic matters, could not handle the abolition question. Princeton, was so racist that they not only were silent about slavery but did not admit a Black student until the Second World War.There were exceptions. Oberlin College was a critical stop on the Underground Railroad, and that institution alone graduated more than one third of all the Negro college graduates in America for the entire 19th century. In 1790, the top student of Brown University gave a commencement address that was a searing indictment of slavery {622025} despite the fact that the school’s namesake was an active slave trader.

Fortunately he was wrong, but the threat of a breakup of the American Union intimidated most members of Congress to avoid anything that would offend a state or group of states. Thus slavery became more and more entrenched till it exploded into the Civil War. At the time the issues of contention included the fact that Louisiana was primarily Roman Catholic and ALL other states were majority Protestant. The territory functioned under French Law—the Napoleonic Code, while all the other states operated under the English Common Law (even today this is so), and there was concern with the French and Creole language and whether the Creoles would fit into American Culture.

Written when he was the President of Harvard. Harvard and most of the established schools, though pretending to free inquiry in all academic matters, could not handle the abolition question. Princeton, was so racist that they not only were silent about slavery but did not admit a Black student until the Second World War.There were exceptions. Oberlin College was a critical stop on the Underground Railroad, and that institution alone graduated more than one third of all the Negro college graduates in America for the entire 19th century. In 1790, the top student of Brown University gave a commencement address that was a searing indictment of slavery {622025} despite the fact that the school’s namesake was an active slave trader.

Fortunately he was wrong, but the threat of a breakup of the American Union intimidated most members of Congress to avoid anything that would offend a state or group of states. Thus slavery became more and more entrenched till it exploded into the Civil War. At the time the issues of contention included the fact that Louisiana was primarily Roman Catholic and ALL other states were majority Protestant. The territory functioned under French Law—the Napoleonic Code, while all the other states operated under the English Common Law (even today this is so), and there was concern with the French and Creole language and whether the Creoles would fit into American Culture.