Brown University – University Hall

In June of 2020, (former RI) House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello stated that he was “unsure” if there had ever been slavery in Rhode Island. The Womxn Project chose Brown University’s most iconic building, University Hall, as a site for artivist projections on August 26th, to illuminate the fact that enslaved laborers not only lived and worked in Rhode Island, but they built some of our state’s most significant buildings. We are excited that Brown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and…