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A Slavery Memorial at Brown University

By propertyprof

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The University's ad hoc "Commission on Memorials" has just issued a report recommending a memorial to Brown's connections to slavery. Memorializing universities' connections pose somewhat different issues from memorials to the slave trade, to emanciaption, to slave insurrections, and (especially) to a "faithful slave." For universities were, in many cases, sites for the promotion of pro-slavery literature. It's hard to memorialize a book, but I hope that some of the memorials we're now seeing will include some text from academics' proslavery writings. That will give a sense of the academy's special role in slavery.

One of the stories that is not told so much about Brown is that in the late antebellum period it was a seat of anti-slavery advocacy. I would think that a memorial might also contain something about its president Francis Wayland, for instance, who very publicly attacked slavery (for instance in debate with South Carolina Minister Richard Fuller).

The image, of a marker to Meshack Roberts, is from Sally Greene.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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