Title Information
Title
Nicholas Brown & Co. to Sheldon, Pardon
Subtitle
December 12, 1763
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Nicholas Brown & Co.
Role
Role Term: Text
creator
Name: Personal
Name Part
Sheldon, Pardon
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")
1763-12-12
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Physical Description
Extent
1 p.
digitalOrigin
reformatted digital
Abstract
In addition to launching at least a thousand transatlantic slaving voyages, Rhode Island merchants routinely trafficked in small lots of slaves in the course of trading expeditions to the southern colonies or Caribbean. In this letter, dated December 12, 1763, the Brown brothers offer instructions to Pardon Sheldon, master of the sloop Four Brothers, for a voyage to Virginia. A postscript advises: "The Negro man Corodon you are to sell for the most he will fetch." Accounts from the voyage reveal that Corodon, who appears to have been owned jointly by the four Brown brothers, was sold for 40.
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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 536-7-12/12/63
Identifier: METSID
1160754632359380
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