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Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper by bbanyc on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:37PM (#13625547)
Nicholas Brown Jr., for whom the university was named, was an abolitionist.
Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper by Haven_Monahan on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:11PM (#13625714)
...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.