PROVIDENCE – A $4.9-million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will enable Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice to study historical injustices and the relationship between colonization of America by Europeans and racial slavery and European taking of Native American lands in New England.
Williams College and Mystic Seaport Museum will collaborate with Brown on the project, "Reimagining New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom,” which