1800-12 Freedom Seeking: Levi Brown
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00801
- Source
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Runaway pickup notice for Matthew Fairfax and Levi Brown, by Peter Keenon
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Runaway pickup notice for Matthew Fairfax and Levi Brown, by Peter Keenon, "TWO NEGROMEN," Guardian, Or, New-Brunswick Advertiser, March 27, 1801, p. 4. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Loose Newspaper Collection (Ac. 3193). Box 27, Folder 15.
- Event Description
- Levi Brown escaped from his enslaver in Pennsylvania in 1800 (or earlier). The name of his enslaver is uncertain. He was later apprehended in Middlesex County, New Jersey. See the related jailing event for Levi Brown for details.
- Event Type
- Freedom Seeking
- Date
- December 1800
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Location of Event
- Pennsylvania
- Related Place
- Middlesex County
- Primary Participants
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Levi Brown (b. ca. 1781)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01954
Role: Runaway
Age: 20
Status: Enslaved
Verbatim description from source:
"LEVI BROWN, a mulatto, says he is from Pennsylvania, about five feet eight inches high, stout made, and about 20 years old" - Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson