Yale Abolitionists from the Yale Slavery website:

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REPOST FROM  Daphne Butler: The Yale Slavery website is a good starting point as we think of names for buildings and other landmarks on Yale's campus. According to the website ten of the residential colleges are named for men who achieved prominence before the Civil War. Nine of those men either held slaves or published pro-slavery views. On the website you can read about a number of Yale abolitionists. The university has not honored them by naming campus buildings after them. One, Samuel Hopkins, has been recognized by the naming of a wing of a Divinity School building.
Yale Abolitionists from the Yale Slavery website:
Samuel Hopkins
James Hillhouse
Simeon Jocelyn
James Pennington
Charles Torrey
Cassius Clay

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