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"A list of the leading slave merchants is almost identical with a list of the region's prominent families: the Fanueils, Royalls, and Cabots of Massachusetts; the Wantons, Browns, and Champlins of Rhode Island; the Whipples of New Hampshire; the Eastons of Connecticut; Willing & Morris of Philadelphia. To this day, it's difficult to find an old North institution of any antiquity that isn't tainted by slavery."

This is a revelation to me. The Fanueils? As in, Faneuil Hall, cradle of liberty? Are you telling me that that hall was built with profits from slaving?

Is that Brown, as in Brown University? As in, the PhD mineralogist who lowered my grad-school X-Ray Diffraction grade from an "A" to a "B" (another guy and I, co-leaders of the class, got this "review") because, while we'd nominally scored "A" in the course by the standards he'd announced at the start of the course, our work wasn't up to what was considered "A" work at his Yankee alma mater, Brown? That Brown?

The Cabots? As in, "Where Lodges speak only to Cabots/ And Cabots speak only to God"?

And after all we've heard about Bedford Forrest.....no wonder those pages disappeared from the Net! Good find, man.

This is a revelation to me. The Fanueils? As in, Faneuil Hall, cradle of liberty? Are you telling me that that hall was built with profits from slaving?

Yep.

Is that Brown, as in Brown University? As in, the PhD mineralogist who lowered my grad-school X-Ray Diffraction grade from an "A" to a "B" (another guy and I, co-leaders of the class, got this "review") because, while we'd nominally scored "A" in the course by the standards he'd announced at the start of the course, our work wasn't up to what was considered "A" work at his Yankee alma mater, Brown? That Brown?

Yep.

The Cabots? As in, "Where Lodges speak only to Cabots/ And Cabots speak only to God"?

The same. Oh the humanity ....