$10M: the price of slave labor.To take responsibility for its history with slavery slavery, institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other services. , Brown University is going to raise $10 million for public schools in the area. The college will also cover the tuition For tuition fees in the United Kingdom, see . Tuition means instruction, teaching or a fee charged for educational instruction especially at a formal institution of learning or by a private tutor usually in the form of one-to-one tuition. of graduate students who vow to work at these schools. The decision came after a report issued by a committee that had been charged in 2003 with looking at the history of slave labor used by the school in its early years. The group found that about 30 former members of the college's governing gov·ern v. gov·erned, gov·ern·ing, gov·erns v.tr. 1. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; exercise sovereign authority in. 2. corporation had owned or captained slave ships and that slave labor was used in the construction of Brown's oldest building. |
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