In 1786, Moses Brown proposed a prize for the best student essay on the slave trade at Brown University, an idea inspired by a similar contest held at Cambridge University in England in 1785.

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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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