“Section IV of my paper looks at the specific role that Mr. Yale played in enforcing exploitative labor practices upon weavers in Madras, which were essential to the making of the cloth that Yale college received. These were practices that have had lasting effects on India’s textile industry, the second largest sector of employment in the country after agriculture, and on the lives of Indian weavers to this day. Section V of my paper looks at the fact that cloth woven in India, like the ones sent to Yale, was the item most in demand in exchange for captives in West Africa, and this aspect of the cloth is what gave it such great monetary value, the same value which was utilized to establish Yale college. Thus, while this may initially seem like an extremely small bone to pick, I will demonstrate through this paper that the contexts and specificities of the cloth used to establish Yale College, manifest the complicity of both Elihu Yale and the college that took his name in the practical implementation of colonialism in India and the economic structures of the Trans-Atlantic trade of enslaved people from Africa.”