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Moses Brown transitioned from a slaveholder to an abolitionist after a spiritual awakening, leading him to manumit his own enslaved people as described in [1] and [2]. He further engaged with the issue of slavery by drafting anti-slavery legislation in [3] and actively participating in the broader anti-slavery movement through correspondence and legal advocacy as noted in [4].
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Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Brown University slaveryandjusticereport.brown.edu 2 facts
claimIn 1774, the Rhode Island Assembly passed a bill, drafted with the help of Moses Brown, that prohibited the direct importation of slaves from Africa into the colony, though the bill included various loopholes and exceptions.
claimFollowing his manumission of enslaved people, Moses Brown participated in the anti-slavery movement by exchanging letters with anti-slavery correspondents in Britain and the Americas, circulating anti-slavery essays and pamphlets, intervening in court cases involving Black people held illegally in bondage, and lobbying others to divest from slavery.