- Title Information
- Title
- Nicholas Brown & Co. to Hopkins, Esek
- Subtitle
- July 15, 1765
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Nicholas Brown & Co.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Hopkins, Esek
- Name Part:
Date
- 1718-1802
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- recipient
- Genre (aat)
- letters (correspondence)
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- riu
- Place Term:
Text
- Providence, RI
- Date Created
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1765-07-15
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 p.
- Abstract
- By mid-July, 1765, ten months after the Sally's departure, the Brown brothers had still had no word from Esek Hopkins. Their anxiety was increased by conflicting reports from Africa. In May, word arrived from another Rhode Island slave ship captain who had seen Hopkins near the Gambia River and reported "all well on board." A month later, however, another report arrived, suggesting that Hopkins had lost all his hands on the Bassa River. On July 15, the Brown brothers wrote another letter to Hopkins, which they expected would be his first port of call in the Americas. The letter included updated information about market conditions in different plantation colonies. Having previously suggested that Hopkins might most profitably sell his slaves in South Carolina, the Browns now offered Jamaica as the best destination for the ship and cargo. Two days after penning this letter, the Browns finally received a letter from Hopkins.
- 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 643-2, item 5
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1157643138623845
- 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.