The DeWolf fortune that built Brown’s campus came from the slave trade.

Evidence

I thought that was great—the students had also invited James DeWolf Perry, a descendant from the Bristol, Rhode Island, DeWolf family, who, he learned later in his life, earned its vast fortune through the slave trade. James, a Harvard graduate, participated in the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary that his cousin Katrina DeWolf Browne directed, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, to confront and investigate that dark history. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 983

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• SHARE: Worth sharing with someone interested in northern slavery fortunes — the DeWolf/Bristol Rhode Island case and its PBS documentary.