- Title Information
- Title
- Brown, John to Brown, Moses
- Subtitle
- November 27, 1786
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Brown, John
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Brown, Moses
- Name Part:
Date
- 1738-1836
- 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")
- 1786-11-27
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 4 p.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Letter from John Brown to Moses Brown, November 27, 1786. In 1785, John Brown returned to the African slave trade after a sixteen-year hiatus. His decision deeply distressed his brother Moses, prompting a searching correspondence between the two. In late 1786, Moses learned of John's intention to send another ship to Africa. He immediately wrote to his brother, urging him to reconsider. John responded with this letter, defending his decision and offering various arguments in favor of slave trading. His ship, the Providence, sailed for the West Africa a few days later.
- 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="RIHS Manuscript ID")
- Moses Brown Papers, MSS 313, B4c, F84
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1160764466210476
- 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.