[Haven_Monahan]

Brown as well. You really can't talk about the slave trade in colonial RI w/o mentioning John & Nick Brown.

Of course, the brand names of these colleges are too valuable to dump.

[bbanyc]

Nicholas Brown Jr., for whom the university was named, was an abolitionist.

[Haven_Monahan]

...who got his money from his parents and uncles. Moe Brown was also a quaker && robustly antislavery, but that did not stop him from bailing out his brothers during the war. Trying to extricate the triangle-trade money from the Brown family is like trying to wring the pink from a sunrise.

[jgalt212]

and then we also must consider what kind of society are we if we look for and act on every opportunity to white wash our history?