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It was a BAD week for former torries, after Harvard Law School decided to retire its official trademark symbol because it had ties to an 18th century slave-owner who left America during ther revolutionary war.

The symbol was the family crest of Isaac Royall Jr., who endowed Harvard’s first law professorship upon his death in 1781. Royall was the son of a slave trader and he inherited slaves when his father died in 1739. Those slaves were freed when he abandoned his home during the revolutionary war. He was a loyalist and eventually fled to England where he died. His will, which was drafted after he fled Massachusetts, left land to Harvard to support the first law professorship. 

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