Organization
Nicholas Brown and Company
Providence trading partnership of four brothers, owner of the slave ship Sally.
Connections 2
members
- John Brown (Providence merchant) Primary record 1
involved in
- Voyage of the slave ship Sally, 1764–65 owner 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 Sally was owned by Nicholas Brown and Company, a partnership of four brothers, Nicholas, John, Joseph, and Moses Brown.
Slaves Rose on us was obliged fire on them and Destroyed Eight and Several more wounded badly
bringing the total death toll to 108
Hopkins eventually acquired a cargo of 196 Africans
Their action appears to have been motivated more by economic than moral qualms
the Sally set sail for the West Indies, nineteen Africans had already died
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