Postscript: Andrew Harris at the University of Vermont

Postscript: Andrew Harris at the University of Vermont

Thornton, Kevin Pierce

A remarkable set of resolutions that the student body of Bowdoin College in Maine passed in 1838 denounced the "unfounded and wicked prejudice" displayed against Andrew Harris at the University of Vermont "for possessing a complexion which God saw fit to be dark." Andrew Harris (1814-1841) was the first African American student at the University of Vermont, who went on to become an abolitionist leader, advocate for Black equality and minister before dying as a very young man. This article traces the discrimination Harris experienced while a student at the University of Vermont between 1836 and 1838, when he graduated.

Vermont History, v. 86, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2018)

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