PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University has received a nearly $5 million grant to study historical injustices and the relationship between the colonization of America, racial slavery and European taking of Indigenous lands in New England.
The grant to Brown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice announced this week comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Brown will collaborate on the project with Williams College in Massachusetts and Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut.
The project, called “Reimagining New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom,” will use maritime history as the foundation.
