In the third semester of the Penn & Slavery Project, the enrollment size of the independent study doubled in size, and research efforts doubled with it. Students collected additional information about slaveholding trustees and alumni, exploring the ways wealth acquired from ownership benefitted families for generations. Further research was conducted into trustees’ failed attempt to raise funds which resulted in the fundraising trips. Several members expanded on the investigation into Penn’s medical school. Students focused on specific doctors and their contributions to their fields of choice. These doctors’ work relied on bodies of enslaved people and resulted in misinformation, which can still be found in modern medicine today. Read the student research reports from the Fall of 2018:
Student Reports
Carson Eckhard Student Report
Dillon Kersh Student Report
Brooke Krancer Student Report
Anna Lisa Lowenstein Student Report
Archana Upadhyay Student Report
Ashley Waiters Student Report
Student Presentation
With a semester of research complete, the undergraduate researchers presented their findings to the University History Department and a ‘Pop-Up Presentation’ at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts in the Van Pelt Library.
Penn & Slavery Project 