![]() I hope that today can also mark a beginning to a better, more inclusive, and more just way of remembering our origins. I would also like to especially thank Professor Jim Campbell who chaired the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. We will look forward to her joining us next month for the opening of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. While she was unable to join us today, special thanks to Ruth for her leadership. ![]() Through this work, Brown set a high standard for rigorous, unflinching analysis – and that standard came straight from Ruth Simmons. The Slavery and Justice Report, released in 2006, was a model of responsible scholarship, and it helped spark a national conversation, which only deepened last year with the publication of Craig Steven Wilder’s history, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. I would also like to thank the Public Art Committee. ![]() I want to thank all of the members of the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and the subsequent committee on memorialization that shaped the University’s response, several of whom are here today. Today marks an end of sorts, to a process that began when my predecessor, Ruth Simmons, asked that a committee of faculty and students look into the history of Brown’s relationship with slavery. ![]() Thank you for coming today, to an important event in the life of Brown University. ![]()
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