Category: Student Reports
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Student Reports In Spring 2024, Penn and Slavery Project researchers expanded their focus to include alumni of Penn’s Medical School,… Continue Reading →
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Student Reports During the Fall 2022 semester, students focused on Penn’s history of grave-robbing and body snatching. Affiliates of the… Continue Reading →
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Student Reports Mary Neal Student Report The Jiggitts Family: the value of a Penn education to an enslaver Mary Neal… Continue Reading →
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Undergraduate researchers are the driving force behind the Penn & Slavery Project. The students have set and exceeded their independent… Continue Reading →
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Student Reports Throughout the fall 2019 semester, students continued to explore the themes of funding, the medical school, and the… Continue Reading →
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During the 2019 Spring Presentation, students shared their research further exploring slave ownership through slave-owning alumni and exploring the university’s early fundraising efforts.… Continue Reading →
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In the third semester of the Penn & Slavery Project, the enrollment size of the independent study doubled in size,… Continue Reading →
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After establishing the ways ownership connected Penn to the institution of slavery, the Penn & Slavery Project began to complicate… Continue Reading →
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The first semester of The Penn & Slavery Project’s research was dedicated to researching the connections between the university and… Continue Reading →
Undergraduate researchers are the driving force behind the Penn & Slavery Project. Since the project’s inception in 2017, students have set and exceeded their independent research goals. They have conducted archival research and found crucial connections between the University of Pennsylvania and the institution of slavery.
Students have also highlighted the ways these connections have shaped the larger history of the United States. Summaries of their research are featured throughout this site, organized by subject, and individual reports can be found in their entirety, organized by semester. Each semester, students make their research public through public presentations and exhibits around campus; selected slides from each semester can be found alongside the reports.
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