- Title Information
- Title
- Nicholas Brown & Co. to Warner, Samuel
- Subtitle
- April 7, 1761
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Nicholas Brown & Co.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Warner, Samuel
- 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")
- 1761-04-07
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 2 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. The following document, dated April 7, 1761, is a letter of instructions from the Brown brothers to Samuel Warner, captain of their sloop George, for a voyage to Surinam, a Dutch colony on the coast of South America. The letter instructs Warner to use the proceeds from sale of his cargo to purchase molasses, duck (coarsely woven cotton fabric), and bills of exchange, as well as six "Young male Slaves from twelve years and upwards."
- 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 549-3, item 1-4/7/61
- Identifier:
METSID
- 116075543114406
- 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.