Museum on slave trade planned for former Episcopal cathedral in Providence

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1. The Browns of Brown University were involved ....

I read a bunch of these articles yesterday on the subject. I went to college in Rhode Island, in a very historical area on the east side.

The DeWolf family was particularly appalling, ending up as the second wealthiest in America due to slave trading, and running their own plantations in Cuba. Episcopalians, too, as were most of the elite establishment. They built most of Bristol, RI.

This seems like a good use of the cathedral, as it has closed due to lack of membership and interest, and the economy of Rhode Island really depended on the slave trade in the early days.