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A pair of slavery shackles of the type used to transport captured Africans to slavery in the Americas is on display at the John Hay Library. The shackles, on loan from the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, will remain at the Hay through March 13, 2016, and then return to Liverpool for permanent display.
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Zwarte bladzijde?

Global Slavery and Exhibitionary Impulse was de titel van een symposium (11/12 juni 2015) waar ik een presentatie gaf over de manier waarop het Amsterdam Museum in 2013 slavernij toonde als interventie in de Gouden Eeuw tentoonstelling. Hoe vertaal je exhibitionary impulse? Als het tentoonstellen van slavernij of misschien eerder de neiging tot het tentoonstellen?
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Rhode Island’s Episcopal Church is about to unveil plans for a museum and teaching center dedicated to the slave trade. The state has a long and difficult history of involvement  in slavery.  RIPR political analyst Scott MacKay discussed the proposal with Episcopal Bishop Nicholas Knisely, whose wife happens to work for Rhode Island Public Radio.
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Soon, some of the nation’s brightest students will learn whether or not they have been accepted for early admission at the country’s most elite universities. Few of these young people, however, are aware of how many of these hallowed institutions of higher learning have troubling aspects to their storied history, including Harvard, Yale, and my alma mater, Brown: Each has ties to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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Faculty, students, alumni, staff, and President Emerita Ruth Simmons gathered Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, to dedicate the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and visit its new home at 94 Waterman Street.
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Teach-in explores Ferguson aftermath

Hundreds of snaps rang throughout Salomon 101 in support of speakers’ messages of directly confronting racial tensions during a teach-in Tuesday about the events surrounding last month’s fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Lecture presents black history through art

Deborah Willis, chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University presented the 2014 Debra L. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice to a half-filled Smith-Buonano 106, entitled “Visualizing Freedom: Photography and Emancipation.”
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Slavery's Power

“The issue of slavery is anything but in the past,” said Associate Professor of History Seth Rockman at a Commencement forum sponsored by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice on slavery’s enduring legacy in the United States.
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On May 9, 2013, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justiceopened its inaugural exhibit, Ships of Bondage and the Fight for Freedom at the Center for Public Humanities’ Carriage House Gallery. 
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Bogues to speak in France, U.K.

B. Anthony Bogues, the Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies and director for the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ), is in Europe to give three public lectures and seminars in the coming weeks.
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Brown to host forum on racial profiling

Brown University will bring together community leaders for a forum on "Racial Profiling in Rhode Island" on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at 6 p.m. in the Rites and Reason Theatre, Churchill House. 
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Slave ship exhibit opens in Providence

On Thursday, May 9, Brown University's Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) is opening a new exhibit entitled “Ships of Bondage and the Fight for Freedom,” at the John Nicholas Brown Center's Carriage House Gallery on Benefit Street, Providence.
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Slavery unchained

Brown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice confronts the university's — and America's — shame
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Slavery Center presents first film of spring series

The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice kicked off its spring event series­ — “Ships of Bondage, Freedom and the Knowledges of the Enslaved” — Wednesday with a screening of the documentary “Traces of the Trade.”
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Slavery and Justice Center finds footing

Since its creation this fall, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice has planned multiple outreach events to begin in the spring. But the center, established to further the study of the transatlantic slave trade, is still developing a mission to guide it past its inaugural year. 
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Sons of Providence author Charles Rappleye will discuss what he learned while writing the book, how it changed his thinking about Brown and early New England, and what it means to be an American, then and now.
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Rhode Island Slavery and the University

The John Hay Library presents "Rhode Island Slavery and the University," an exhibition in support of the First Readings 2012 program for the Class of 2016, which focuses on Charles Rappleye's Sons of Providence.
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President Paxson opens 249th academic year

Due to the threat of heavy rain and lightning, Brown University's 249th Opening Convocation met in the Pizzitola Sports Center at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012.
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Reading highlights U.’s past with slavery

First-year students learned about the University’s connection to the slave trade in this year’s summer reading choice, “Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade and the American Revolution.” The selection came in concurrence with the appointment of Anthony Bogues, professor of Africana studies, as the inaugural director for the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice in May.
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President Paxson leads seminar

Each year, on the Monday before Convocation, incoming freshmen gather with Brown faculty and administration in classrooms throughout campus to engage in “First Readings” seminars, a discussion centered around Brown’s summer reading project for incoming students.
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Bogues to direct Slavery and Justice Center

B. Anthony Bogues, the Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies at BrownUniversity, has been named inaugural director of the University's Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
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Brown grants $50,237 to Providence schools

The Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence is making grants totaling $50,237 to four Providence schools to enhance literacy learning, promote nonviolence, and purchase performing arts supplies and computers.
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Martin Puryear to design slavery memorial

At its February meeting, the Corporation of Brown University selected acclaimed American artist Martin Puryear to create a slavery memorial on the University campus.
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