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Brown Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

Committee of faculty, students and administrators that reported on Brown’s ties to slavery in 2006.

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  1. 2003 Ruth Simmons founded Brown Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
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  1. Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, Brown University, 2006. Primary record
    In 2003, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons appointed a Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice to investigate and issue a public report on the University’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.
    The Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice represents one institution’s confrontation with these questions.
    While members of the steering committee have different opinions about the propriety and value of an institutional apology
    the committee would not determine whether or how Brown might pay monetary reparations
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