Yale University formally apologized for the school's past ties to slavery, stating that slavery helped erect its oldest building on campus.
In lengthy document from the school's President Peter Salovey, the institution issued an apology, specifically for Yale’s "formative ties" to slavery and the slave trade.
"We recognize our university’s historical role in and associations with slavery, as well as the labor, the experiences, and the contributions of enslaved people to our university’s history, and we apologize," the president wrote. "Yale’s leaders, over the course of our early history, participated in slavery," he added.
The school said it would use what it had learned to address the "effects of slavery in society today," which appears to have resulted in providing money for programs, disseminating race-based historical re-education, and providing postmortem degrees.