{"id":78442,"date":"2019-11-10T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T16:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=78442"},"modified":"2019-11-10T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T16:29:20","slug":"harvard-law-school-threatened-with-court-action-over-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/harvard-law-school-threatened-with-court-action-over-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Law School threatened with court action over reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harvard Law School<\/strong>\u00a0could be sued by Antigua and Barbuda unless it provides compensation for its founding benefactor\u2019s participation in the slave trade in the same way as\u00a0Glasgow University.<\/p>

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Gaston Browne, the country\u2019s prime minister, said his government considered \u201cHarvard\u2019s failure to acknowledge its obligations to Antigua and the stain it bears from benefiting from the blood of our people as shocking, if not immoral\u201d.<\/p>\n

Isaac Royall Jr, the university\u2019s founding benefactor, bequeathed his fortune, built on a sugar plantation in Antigua, to the institution.<\/p>

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Dr Lawrence Bacow, Harvard\u2019s president responded by noting that the university had made efforts to acknowledge its ties to slavery.<\/p>

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Mr Browne pointed out that the University of Glasgow had \u201cprovided resources\u201d for a new university in his country and said Harvard ought to do the same.<\/p>\n

He told the\u00a0Miami Herald<\/em>\u00a0this week that \u201cif they fail to engage meaningfully, we will be forced to pursue all legal remedies available to us\u201d.<\/p>

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