James Brown James Brown i(A84785 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1808 West / Central Africa, Africa, ;
Gender: Male
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A West African by birth, James arrived in Hobart on board the John in December 1833. He told the Muster Master that, as a child, he had been taken into slavery from the Congo River, sold to a Spanish slaver and later released in Sierra Leone. From there he became a servant to an Irish trader. Brown remained a prisoner in Van Diemen's Land from 1833-1844, incurring a number of additional punishments.

(Source: '"Stated This Offence": High-Density Convict Micro-Narratives' by Ian Duffield in Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives, 2001)

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