Person

Isaac Royall Jr.

Massachusetts landowner whose bequest endowed Harvard’s first chair in law; the Harvard report says he enslaved at least 60 people.

2 links, 2 backed by primary records

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Harvard University bequest that endowed the Royall Professorship of Law Primary record 1

Proof 2 sources

Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, Harvard University, Apr 2022. Primary record
the bequest of Isaac Royall Jr., whose family’s sugar plantation on the Caribbean island of Antigua furnished the wealth that endowed the Royall Professorship of Law, Harvard’s first chair in law
Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, Brown University, 2006. Primary record
Belinda, who sought a small portion of the estate of her erstwhile master, Isaac Royall

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