Guest Column by Abdul-Aliy Muhammad | Penn, complicit in slavery and displacement must engage in reparative action
(08/30/19 12:10am)
The University of Pennsylvania’s legacy is interlocked with the commodification and brutalization of enslaved people. Far from the glossy imprint of grandeur and the lore of exceptionalism lives the University's complex history of complicity in the institution of slavery, despite previous claims by University officials that Penn was not directly involved in the slave trade.