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The Brown family's first recorded involvement in slave trading
Captain Jamesbrown, father of the four brothers in the Brown family, sent the vessel, named the Mary, to Africa. This first slaveship to sail from Providence got a moderately successful venture financially. -
The Brown family's second recorded involvement in slave trade
Nicholas and John joined their uncle Obadiah and several other Providence merchants in outfitting an another vessel named The Wheel Of Fortune. But it was captured by a French privateer, and he took much of the family's investment with it. -
The Brown's big voyage in summer
After the reparation in summer 1764, Captain Hopkins ordered to engage in any trading activities that would make a profit, and retuened with a healthy cargo of slaves to Barbados or any other Carribean port of interest. There he was to sell them and retuened to Providance in September 10th, 1974. -
The trip of the Browns to the country of Guinea on the Sally
Captain Hopkins and the Sally arrived in West Africa, which is the country of Guinea today. He made several visits to the African leaders in order to develope relationship which made him enable to buy slaves, which took him a long time to chosoe and buy them. -
The end of a long slave trading period
Captain Hopkins bought his last slave in August 20th, 1965. He had bought 196 slaves in which 20 of the slaves died,and one woman slave hanged. The death toll continued after the Sally left the coast. -
Rebellion on Sally
The slaves opened a rebellion eight days after the Sally left the coast. Hopkins and the crews suppressed the uprising by firing on the slaves, killing eight and wounding several others. -
The disaster of the Sally's rebellion
After the rebellion, some surviving slaves became dispirited, so they drowned themselves. Only 88 slaves survived on teh Sally. The Sally rebellion became a tradegy, and a economic disaster.
