Yale historian David Blight teaches the seventh session of the 2024 DeVane Lecture Series course "Can It Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, and Legacies." This class focuses on Yale's own entanglement with slavery in the decades before the Civil War, tracing how the university's finances, faculty, and alumni networks connected to the slave economy even as sectional tensions built toward secession. Blight situates Yale within the broader antebellum crisis, asking how an institution devoted to learning and law coexisted with, and profited from, a system of human bondage. The lecture threads together local Yale history with national politics, showing how debates over slavery reached into New Haven classrooms and pulpits. Framed by the course's recurring question of whether the American experiment can survive its own contradictions, the talk uses primary documents and institutional records to make the abstract crisis of the 1850s concrete. It runs about fifty five minutes as a standard classroom lecture.