- Title Information
- Title
- Wanton, Joseph Jr. to Nicholas Brown & Co.
- Subtitle
- August 13, 1764
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Wanton, Joseph
- Name Part:
Date
- 1731-1780
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Nicholas Brown & Co.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- recipient
- Genre (aat)
- letters (correspondence)
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- riu
- Place Term:
Text
- Newport, RI
- Date Created
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1764-08-13
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 2 p.
- Abstract
- Letter to the Brown brothers from Joseph Wanton, Jr., a Newport merchant and slave trader, regarding Thomas Underwood, who has agreed to serve as first officer of the Sally on its forthcoming voyage to Africa in exchange for a wage of £60 per month and a privilege (i.e. a commission) of four slaves. The letter, dated August 13, 1764, also advises the Browns to replace the Sally's master, Esek Hopkins, who had no experience in the slave trade, with a more experienced captain named Crosswell. "[S]uch times as will be when your vessel gets there, never were before," Wanton warns, "and having a Stranger must make it worse." In a letter sent the previous week, Wanton had volunteered his own services to command the ship.
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
- Identifier:
COLID
- 17
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/slaveryandjustice
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="JCB Manuscript ID")
- BFBR 340-7-8/13/64
- Identifier:
METSID
- 115764064293220
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.