In 2006, this university became the first American university to extensively examine its historical ties to slavery in its “Slavery and Justice Report.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this university whose namesake family included the abolitionist Moses and his pro-slavery brother John, the first American prosecuted under the Slave Trade Act of 1794.
ANSWER: Brown University [accept Moses Brown; accept John Brown]
[10m] The Brown family sponsored Esek Hopkins on a disastrous 1764 voyage of a slave ship with this name. A 1998 DNA test supported Annette Gordon-Reed’s theory about an enslaved woman with this first name.
ANSWER: Sally [accept Sally Hemings]
[10e] Specific word required. Brown historian Seth Rockman examined the material history of northern “goods” used in these places. To avoid slavery connotations, Rhode Island dropped “Providence” and this word from its full name in 2020.
ANSWER: plantations [accept State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; accept Plantation Goods]
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