Nicholas Brown Jr., for whom the university was named, was an abolitionist.

...who got his money from his parents and uncles. Moe Brown was also a quaker && robustly antislavery, but that did not stop him from bailing out his brothers during the war. Trying to extricate the triangle-trade money from the Brown family is like trying to wring the pink from a sunrise.

and then we also must consider what kind of society are we if we look for and act on every opportunity to white wash our history?