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Three years after it was appointed by Brown’s president, Ruth J. Simmons, a task force has released a report that documents how Brown benefited financially from the slave trade and how it can atone for its past—by constructing a memorial and creating a center dedicated to the study of racial issues...
...18th century, Brown’s founder, Rev. James Manning, owned a slave and the university took donations from slave traders and owners, including the university’s namesake family, according to The New York Times. One family member who later became the university’s treasurer, John Brown, was a slave trader...
Though Brown’s ties to slavery run deeper than other Ivy League schools, according to a reparations activist and a historian, another major Ivy League recipient of slave money was Yale University...
Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann, a reparations activist who filed suit in 2002 against companies she alleges profited from slavery, claims in her suit that “money from the slave trade financed Yale University’s first endowed professorship, its first endowed scholarship, and its first endowed library fund...
Harvard’s past ties to the slave trade are comparatively small but exist nonetheless, according to Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70, a historian who has written about Harvard...