- Title Information
- Title
- Brown, John to Brown, Moses
- Subtitle
- November 17, 1797
- 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")
- 1797-11-17
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 p.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Letter from John Brown to Moses Brown, November 17, 1797. With his trial for illegal slave trading approaching, John Brown wrote to his brother Moses and to David Howell, president of the Providence Abolition Society, asking for a settlement. He proposed that they drop the prosecution in exchange for his pledge to avoid being involved in the trade in the future, an arrangement the society had previously made with another illegal slave trader in Providence, Cyprian Sterry. Ultimately, the case went to trial and John was acquitted.
- 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, B7c, F151
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1160766880142290
- 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.