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James McGill was a slave owner. Also founders of some other universities.
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They never expect a descendant to show up.
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Would have to wonder: a black descendant, or an Irish/other "indentured" ethnic one?
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But we don't talk about the native stuff in this regard -- i.e. McGill was built on unrepaid loans from natives.
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trauma & echoes of U.S. Civil War keep bubbling things up (trauma of slaves & descendants, alone, does not, unfortunately)
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Very true, but some encouraging signs recently: https://www.routledge.com/Slavery-Geography-and-Empire-in-Nineteenth-Century-Marine-Landscapes-of/Nelson/p/book/9781409468912 … and http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550653274 … Both discuss McGill at length.
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Part of the congratulatory self-identity vis-avis U.S. you have mentioned. Taught in our schools & endemic in media in Canada
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Lucky to live in a special time and place of relative freedom and civilization.
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