page_title: Elihu Yale
section_title: Controversy
hierarchical_section_title: Elihu Yale / Controversy
caption_attribution_description: English: "Elihu Yale," oil on canvas, by an unknown artist. 15 1/2 in. x 21 1/16 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Mrs. Arthur W. Butler. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
context_page_description: Elihu Yale was a British-American merchant and a slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Yale College in his honor.
context_section_description: There was recent controversy about Yale's activities during the era of slave trade and a group called #CancelYale demands that Elihu Yale's name be removed from Yale University. 
  Yale University "...relied on slave-trading money for its first scholarships, endowed professorship and library endowment."
caption: Elihu Yale, the Second Duke of Devonshire, and Lord James Cavendish attended to by a chained child slave
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