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by bbanyc 3415 days ago
Nicholas Brown Jr., for whom the university was named, was an abolitionist.
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...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.