- Title Information
- Title
- Wanton, Joseph and William to Nicholas Brown & Co.
- Subtitle
- June 26, 1765
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Wanton, Joseph
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Wanton, William
- 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")
- 1765-06-26
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 2 p.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Letter from Joseph and William Wanton, merchants in Newport, to the Brown brothers, June 26, 1765, discussing business affairs and offering condolences for the reported loss of the Sally and its crew on the African coast. The Wantons also share information about the state of the slave trade on the Gold Coast, which was reportedly awash in slave ships and rum. Had the Sally "proceeded down Anamaboe it would have been no better with Regard to Trade," they note, adding: "[T]here was on 6th April 17 Sail of Europeans and Rum men [i.e. Rhode Island slave ships] + the latter could not get a Slave at any price..."
- Related Item:
Host
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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="RIHS Manuscript ID")
- Moses Brown Papers, MSS 313, B1c, F7
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1160762380513628
- 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.