James Brown
Item
- Person Record Title
- James Brown
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-00474
- Given Name
- James
- Family Name
- Brown
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
- James Brown, son of William Brown, was an enslaver associated with Judge Jacob Van Wickle's notorious slave trading ring in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
- Place of Significance
- South River, NJ
- Child of
- William Brown
- Related Person or Resource
- New Jersey Slavery Records > Understanding removal certificates and slave trading
- Lost Souls Memorial Project website
- Bibliographic Citation
- Gigantino, James J., II. "Trading in Jersey Souls: New Jersey and the Interstate Slave Trade." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 77, no. 3 (2010): 281–302.
- Drake, Jarrett. "Off the Record: The Production of Evidence in 19th Century New Jersey." New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1, no. 1 (2015): 104–25.
- Pingeon, Frances D. “An Abominable Business: The New Jersey Slave Trade, 1818.” New Jersey History 109, no. 3 (1991): 15–35.
- Record Contributor
- Isaac Guzmán
- Jesse Bayker
Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| Harriet Jane (b. 1814) | Agent |
| Lidiann (b. 1796) [aka Lidia] | Agent |
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| 1818, Harriet Jane, Removal | Event |
| 1818, Lidiann, Removal | Event |
- Resource class
- Agent