On this day 250 years ago, Moses Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, one of the four Brown brothers who were the leading Patriots in that colony, freed his slaves with this letter of manumission:
“Whereas I am clearly convinced that the buying and selling of men of what color soever is contrary to the Divine Mind manifest in the conscience of all men however some may smother and neglect its reprovings, and being also made sensible that the holding of negroes in slavery however kindly treated has a tendency to encourage the iniquitous practice of importing them from their native country and is contrary to that justice, mercy, and humanity enjoined as the duty of every christian, I do therefore by these presents for myself, my heirs etc. manumit and set free the following negroes being all I am possessed of or any ways interested in.”
Unfortunately, Moses Brown’s brothers did not recognize the hypocrisy of fighting for their own Liberty while enslaving others, and they continued to own and trade slaves.
Source: https://slaveryandjusticereport.brown.edu/sections/slavery-the-slave-trade-and-brown/
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Thank you so much for including this important bit of history. While our U.S. Constitution did not initially free all people nor grant them the right to vote, it did allow for the amendments and future changes. Once racism and inequalities became institutionalized in a society it has historically cost much to remove it.
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