US-RPB-ms1E.9 Guide to the Brown University Slavery and Justice Committee records 1989-2007 Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff. Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Brown University Archives
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English 2.25 Linear feet 1989-2007 The records consist of collected papers, correspondence, and meeting records which document the activities of the Slavery and Justice Steering Committee. Brown University. Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Brown University Slavery and Justice Committee records Administrative History

In 2003, Brown University President Ruth Simmons appointed a Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. The committee, which included faculty members, undergraduate and graduate students, and administrators, was charged to investigate and to prepare a report about the University’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. It was also asked to organize public programs that might help the campus and the nation reflect on the meaning of this history in the present, on the complex historical, political, legal, and moral questions posed by any present-day confrontation with past injustice. The Committee presented its final report to President Simmons in October 2006. On February 24, 2007, the Brown Corporation endorsed a set of initiatives in response to the Committee’s report.

 Papers Series I 2000-2007 Annual Survey of American Law: Some conceptual and legal problems in reparations for slavery by Alfred L. Brophy 1 2003 Audience for Slavery & Justice Comm. Events largely from outside Brown by Anne Wootton 1 2004 Bearing witness and the practice of reconciliation in Christian thought: A critical reading from the perspective of Trauma Theory 1 Brown's Reparations Ruse by Stephen Beale 1 2005 Classifying the hurricane by Adolph Reed Jr. 1 2005 October Connecticut: A second look at history by Abigail Sullivan Moore 1 2005 April 3 Scope and Contents note

New York Times

 Examining and understanding the Slave Reparations Debate by Julia McCombs 1 2005 Herero Genocide in the 20th Century: Politics and Memory (Brown lecture) 1 2005 January 31 Historical obligations by Janna Thompson 1 2000 September History and collective responsibility by Robert Sparrow 1 2004 December [How institutions confront historical injustice] by Anne Farrow 1 Initiative's and programs related to diversity at Brown 1 J.P.Morgan Chase & Company 1 2005 Laying bare Rhode Island's slavery 'Complex' by Bryan Rourke 1 2004 February 22 Scope and Contents note

Pro Jo

 Legacies of Slavery in American Life: Politics, Education, and the Arts 1 2005 The Legal and Moral basis of a multi-faceted claim for reparations 1 2005 March 18-20 Lehman takes a hit over ties to slavery 1 2005 October 2 Manchester Guardian. Articles 1 2004 Miscellaneous 1 2004-2005 Notes from inside New Orleans. Jordan Flaherty 1 2005 September 22 The political economy of ending racism and the WCAR 1 Scope and Contents note

The economics of reparations by William Darity and Dania Frank

 Project Priscilla - RI Black Storytellers (RIBS) 1 2004 The Slaves of Dartmouth by James Zug 1 2007 Symposium: The jurisprudence of slavery reparations: The case against black reparations 1 2004 December Trans-generational justice _ compensatory vs Interpretative approaches 1 2004 February 6-8 Scope and Contents note

Glen C. Loury. Dept. Economics, Boston University

 Tribes' new image shifts battleground over rights by Douglas brown 1 2004 September 19 United States Court of Appeals 1 2004 December 13 Scope and Contents note

Tenth Circuit

 When Chicago baked by Eric Klinenberg 1 2005 September 2 SJC- RETREAT 1 2005 SJC - Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice � 1 SJC - Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice _ Program of Events 1 2004-2005 Donors and Correspondence Series II 2003-2004 SFC _ Celebrating Brown's Community of Donors 2 2003-2004 Scope and Contents note

Report on Giving

 SFC _ Conference _ Brown University 2 Scope and Contents note

Restitution and reconciliation in International perspective

 SFC- Corporations and Foundations who have made gifts or grants to 2 2002-2004 Scope and Contents note

Brown University. FY2002-FY2004

 Correspondence (A-L) 2 Correspondence (M-W) 2 Correspondence-Christner, David W. 2 2004 Correspondence-Manegold, Catherine S. 2 2004 Correspondence-Marder, Alfred L. 2 2004 Correspondence-Monroe, Cate 2 2004 Correspondence-Perrin, Warren A. 2 Meetings Series III 2000-2006 3 2000 October 3 2004 May 3 2004 October 3 2004 November 3 2004 December 3 2005 January 3 2005 February 3 2005 April 3 2005 June 3 2005 September 3 2005 October 3 2006 January 3 2006 March 3 2006 May 3 2006 July 3 2006 Septemer 3 2006 October 3 2006 November Email Series IV 2004-2005 SFC _ EMAIL 4 2004-2005 Papers given to Archives by Professor James Campbell, Professor of African Studies Series V 1989-1998 Brown _ University of Cape Town Exchange 5 V.1 2001-2002 Cape Town, University of 5 V.2 1994-1999 Cape Town, University of 5 V.3 2000-2001 South African Connections 5 V.4 1989-1998 Collection information

The collection is organized in five series: I. Papers, 2000-2007 II. Donors and Correspondence, 2003-2004 III. Meetings, 2000-2006 IV. Email, 2004-2005 V. Papers given to Archives by Professor James Campbell, Professor of African Studies, 1989-1998

There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.

Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.

Brown University Slavery and Justice Committee records, MS-1E-9, Brown University Archives.

 Administrative information

Materials given by Steven Cornish, administrative member of the Committee. Series V comprises materials given by James Campbell, Professor of African Studies.

 Additional information

Names Brown University. Subjects Brown University--History. Slave trade--Rhode Island. Slavery--United States Occupations

Types of Materials Correspondence Papers (Document genres) RIAMCO Browsing Term Education