{"id":99,"date":"2012-04-26T08:56:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T12:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/firstreadings2012\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2012-04-26T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T12:56:41","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2012\/09\/2012First-Reading-Poster.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-341\" title=\"Charles Rappleye Event\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2012\/09\/eventposter.png\" width=\"222\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a>Incoming first-year and transfer students at Brown University will be reading\u00a0<em>Sons of Providence<\/em>\u00a0by Charles Rappleye as part of this year&#8217;s First Readings program.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, October 3rd, Charles Rappleye will be delivering a lecture to the Brown community titled, <em>Past &amp; Present<\/em>. 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&#8217;t make it to campus, watch it online; the talk will be <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brown.edu\/web\/livestream\" target=\"_blank\">live streaming<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Letter from Dean Bergeron\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/firstreadings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/firstreadings2012letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about the program in a letter from Dean Katherine Bergeron.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each student will write and submit a letter to their advisor. Letters should be submitted online by August 1.<\/p>\n<p>To submit your letter to your advisor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.college.brown.edu\/first_readings\" target=\"_blank\">please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few resources to help expand your understanding of life in the time period of\u00a0<em>Sons of Providence<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right\">\/\/ <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stg.brown.edu\/projects\/sally\/\" target=\"_blank\">Voyage of the slave ship Sally<\/a>\u00a0is a collection of materials that has been devoted to the Sally&#8217;s expedition. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stg.brown.edu\/projects\/sally\/timeline.html\" target=\"_blank\">timeline<\/a>, in particular, is\u00a0a helpful tool of understanding the slave ship&#8217;s journey.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brown.edu\/Research\/Slavery_Justice\/documents\/SlaveryAndJustice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Slavery and Justice Committee report<\/a>\u00a0was created to look at Brown University\u2019s historical relationship to\u00a0slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.\u00a0<a title=\"Brown University's steering committee on slavery and justice\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/slaveryandjustice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown University&#8217;s steering committee on slavery and justice<\/a>\u00a0created a\u00a0digital archive of the historical documents at Brown relating to slavery.<\/li>\n<li>Brown Archival and Manuscript Collections:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pike.services.brown.edu\/bamco\/bamco.php?eadid=ms-1e-1\" target=\"_blank\">Rhode Island College miscellaneous papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pike.services.brown.edu\/bamco\/bamco.php?eadid=ms-1c-1\" target=\"_blank\">James Manning Papers<\/a>\u00a0(Brown&#8217;s founding president)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/bamco\/bamco.php?eadid=ms2008.006\" target=\"_blank\">Fales Family Letters<\/a>\u00a0(Bristol RI family with plantations in Cuba)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Exhibits:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/pollard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remembering Fritz Pollard and the African American Experience at Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/events.brown.edu\/events\/cal\/CAL-00149399-397bc0a8-0139-7dc07014-00000004events@brown.edu\/\">Rhode Island Slavery and the University<\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0September 3rd &#8211; October 5th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This site has been created as a tool to help new students further explore the issues relevant\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Sons of Providence\u00a0<\/em>while also becoming familiar with the resources available through the Brown Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming first-year and transfer students at Brown University will be reading\u00a0Sons of Providence\u00a0by Charles Rappleye as part of this year&#8217;s First Readings program. 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