Person
John Brown (Providence merchant)
Providence merchant, partner in Nicholas Brown and Company, treasurer of the College of Rhode Island.
Connections 3
member of
- Nicholas Brown and Company Primary record 1
funded
- Brown University treasurer and a chief benefactor Primary record 1
involved in
- Prosecution of John Brown for the voyage of the Hope defendant; acquitted Primary record 1
Proof 1 source
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Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, Brown University, 2006.
Primary record
a partnership of four brothers, Nicholas, John, Joseph, and Moses Brown
the College of Rhode Island’s treasurer and one of its chief benefactors
The voyage proved a profitable one
Of the 229 Africans loaded onto the ship, 198 survived to be sold in Cuba.
Though the offending ship was impounded, John Brown triumphed in the ensuing jury trial, emerging with an acquittal and a judgment for costs against the Providence Abolition Society.
were both longtime allies of John Brown
Thus did John Brown become the first Rhode Islander, and apparently the first American, prosecuted in federal court for illegal slave trading
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