James Brown
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This white person has 2 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
This person was connected with a notorious slave trading ring in New Jersey. To learn more about the scheme, see our guide to the Van Wickle Slave Trading Ring.
- 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.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Van Wickle and associates
- Places
- South River
- Enslaver of
- Harriet Jane (b. 1814) {daughter of Lidiann}
- Lidiann (b. ca. 1796) {Lidia Ann, mother of Harriet Jane}
- Child of
- William Brown
- References
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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. https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.77.3.0281
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. https://doi.org/10.14713/njs.v1i1.16
Pingeon, Frances D. “An Abominable Business: The New Jersey Slave Trade, 1818.” New Jersey History 109, no. 3 (1991): 15–35.
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1818-02-10 Removal Registration: Lidiann, Harriet Jane (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-06 Criminal action: victims children Augustus, Diana, Diana, Dorcas, Harriet Jane, Hercules, Mary, Rozenah, Susan (slave trafficking case, defendants Charles Morgan and Nicholas Van Wickle) (Role: Former Enslaver Mentioned)
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