The Amistad Committee helped catalyze Yale’s movement to examine its own history.

The following Yale Daily News article quotes extensively from committee member Charles Warner, who is also a member of the Yale and Slavery Working Group. The article also references a booklet the Amistad Committee published in 2001:

For the University’s 300th anniversary in 2001, a group of graduate students issued an independent report on Yale’s connections to slavery, which Salovey acknowledged in his address at an event announcing the book on Yale and slavery.

Read the entirety of the article, HERE.