Moses Brown attempted to combat the slave trade by encouraging local manufacturing in Rhode Island, believing that new investment opportunities would incentivize merchants to abandon the slave trade.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Brown University
  Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Brown University

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• Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Brown University slaveryandjusticereport.brown.edu Brown University via serper

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• Rhode Island location
• slave trade concept
• Moses Brown entity