Incoming first-year and transfer students at Brown University will be reading Sons of Providence by Charles Rappleye as part of this year’s First Readings program.
On Wednesday, October 3rd, Charles Rappleye will be delivering a lecture to the Brown community titled, Past & Present. The talk will take place in the Salomon Center at 5:00 p.m. It is free and open to the public. If you can’t make it to campus, watch it online; the talk will be live streaming.
Learn more about the program in a letter from Dean Katherine Bergeron.
Each student will write and submit a letter to their advisor. Letters should be submitted online by August 1.
To submit your letter to your advisor please click here.
Here are a few resources to help expand your understanding of life in the time period of Sons of Providence:
- Voyage of the slave ship Sally is a collection of materials that has been devoted to the Sally’s expedition. The timeline, in particular, is a helpful tool of understanding the slave ship’s journey.
- The Slavery and Justice Committee report was created to look at Brown University’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. Brown University’s steering committee on slavery and justice created a digital archive of the historical documents at Brown relating to slavery.
- Brown Archival and Manuscript Collections:
- Rhode Island College miscellaneous papers
- James Manning Papers (Brown’s founding president)
- Fales Family Letters (Bristol RI family with plantations in Cuba)
- Exhibits:
- Remembering Fritz Pollard and the African American Experience at Brown
- Rhode Island Slavery and the University : September 3rd – October 5th.
This site has been created as a tool to help new students further explore the issues relevant in Sons of Providence while also becoming familiar with the resources available through the Brown Library.