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Moses School in Providence RI

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1814 history,

19th-century schools,

abolitionist history,

college preparatory school,

educational legacy,

Friends Boarding School,

Moses Brown abolitionist,

Moses Brown School,

New England architecture,

photo of the week,

Providence Rhode Island,

Quaker education,

Quaker values,

Rhode Island history,

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Moses Brown broke away from his brother’s slave trading business in Rhode Island, becoming a Quaker and an abolitionist. In 1814 he donated 43 acres of land in Providence to build a Quaker School which was renamed in his honor in 1913. Today it is a college prep school.

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