Yale School of Medicine students from slave societies, 1813-1870

Item

Title

Yale School of Medicine students from slave societies, 1813-1870

Creator

Yale School of Medicine and Slavery Project

Contributor

Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Date

2023

Description

Chart of percentage of Yale School of Medicine students from slave societies, 1813-1870. Created from the annual medical school catalogs which included lists of students and where they came from. Students from states and countries where slavery was legal at the outbreak of the Civil War were counted in comparison to the total number of students listed in the catalogs.

Format

Still image

Language

en English

Rights

Public domain under CC0 license

Source

Yale School of Medicine and Slavery Project

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Graph with blue bars and dates along the bottom, 1813-1869Yale School of Medicine students chart