Following the financial failure and human tragedy of his and his brothers' role in the slave trade, Moses broke with his brothers and refused to continue his business sponsorship of it. Later, after becoming a Quaker, he began a long crusade against slavery, and soon became Rhode Island's leading opponent of the slave trade. In 1773, nine years after the voyage of the Sally, he freed the last of his own slaves.[1] During the war, he solidified his opposition to slavery in the company of ministers and teachers from the College, which had ceased business temporarily because British troops were billeted in its campus. At the end of hostilities, Brown renewed his efforts against the slave trade. He unsuccessfully petitioned the General Assembly in 1783, wrote frequently in the local press, and helped distribute antislavery pamphlets throughout New England. He was instrumental in the 1787 passage of a law banning the participation of Rhode Islanders in the slave trade. In 1789, he helped found the Providence Society for Abolishing the Slave Trade with both Quaker and non-Quaker associates to help enforce recently passed anti-slave trade legislation. He later helped engineer passage of a law in the U.S. Congress to forbid foreign slave ships from being equipped in American ports. He also became known for his willingness to help slaves and free blacks on an individual basis, through financial and legal assistance.
True fact: There have been protest against Confederate memorials and honors given to racists and slaveholders at universities all over the country. Princeton was forced to rename it's college of international studies. The Confederate memorial at the University of North Carolina was pulled down by protesters in 2018. I could go on and on and on. We are reality based here, I don't publish comments that are factually false.
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Dear Nicholas: A gezunt dir in pupik! He was a MENSCH!
Strange, isn't it, how there are people in each age, each era, who inherently know what the right thing is--and they do it?
Republicans are not those people. They either don't know, don't CARE, or don't CARE TO KNOW.
Either way--IN DRERD!
Unfortunately, then name of Yale University is not so meritorious. Elihu Yale was a slave trader. There has been a movement to change the name for decades but I'll be surprised if it happens. However, it is false to say people aren't demanding it. They just haven't succeeded yet.
Offering up Wikipedia is weak. Great 'tap dance', though.
Here's a report from your own university. And I must admit I've never seen a more eloquent writing that on one hand admits culpability and recommends remedial actions, and at the same time attempts to distance itself from any guilt by showing that slavery was ubiquitous in New England (which it was).
http://brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/report/
What I want to know is why isn't BLM , NYT and the rest of the "woke" mob (including YOU)after Brown and Yale and the rest of 'em? Just saying a few people have whined about Yale while the mob utterly destroys 5th Avenue doesn't cut it.
That's very funny dipshit, your comment is self-refuting. You originally raised the issue of the name of Brown University. It turns out the university is named after an abolitionist. And as you properly have discovered, the university has already done an in depth examination of its own history and identified the culpability and recommended remedial action. So that already happened. And as I said, people are raising hell about Yale. There have been numerous protests and student strikes regarding the commemoration of slavers and traitors, and they got the university to change the name of Calhoun college and remove some other monuments. So yes, that is happening. You fucking idiot
And I haven't noticed that 5th Avenue has been "utterly destroyed" or in fact damaged in any way. You must have had a bad dream.
It was nice of Kildepstein to notice that Cervantes is in fact awake, though rude of him to say that people who are aware are part of a "mob." I also find this aspect of today's right wing curious: the invention of riots that don't exist. And they keep believing it!
The irony is that K. doesn't know he isn't awake. This in essence is the problem we find ourselves in for the past 330 years; we have a constitution founded in myths of Caucasian supremacy, and its adherents keep telling each other that they're "right" and that if they don't listen to anyone else, their myth of supremacy will be "true." Last time I looked, the true intellectual giants in America were mostly foreigners, Jews, and African Americans.
Where would K. be without us? Oops, I forgot--he lives in a world that doesn't actually exist: the world where liberals like Jesus are part of a mob, and only people with light-colored skin are worthy of renting a temporary place on Earth. Gotta keep their foot up the African American's ass so they can keep claiming he's inferior.
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