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Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Did whomever started this project not understand that Harvard was founded in 1636, and the average birth rate was greater than 5 until the 20th century, so they were looking at many thousands of descendants at a bare minimum?

Perhaps they should have gone to Stanford?