One tragic group were the black freedmen, in danger of being re-enslaved on the orders of George Washington. (At least one of them had belonged to Thomas Jefferson.) They were eventually allowed to emigrate to Nova Scotia, but were so badly treated there that they moved on to West Africa, where they became Sierra Leone's elite, founding the capital, Freetown.
The gift from Qualcomm Inc. founding chairman and former CEO Irwin Jacobs will endow an innovation institute at the core of Cornell NYC Tech, an elite graduate program that's meant to link academia and entrepreneurship while helping make New York a high-tech hub.