The decade between John Brown’s acquittal and the 1807 Congressional act abolishing the transatlantic slave trade was the peak of the Rhode Island slave trade, with as many as fifty ships per year clearing for Africa.

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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
• John Brown entity