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Captain James Brown sent a slave ship, called The Mary, from Providence to Africa. It was the Brown family's first record of involvement in the slave trade.
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Nicholas and John Brown joined their uncle, Obadiah, and other Providence merchants in collecting and placing all the supplies they need for the journey , in the boat, to West Africa. The ship's name was The Wheel of Fortune.
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The Nicholas and Brown Company sent three ships to the Caribbean. Two of the ships were filled with horses and other goods and the other ship, the Sally, was filled with enslaved Africans.
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Captain Hopkins and the Sally arrived at the coast of West Africa which is now known as Guinea. He bought slaves from African leaders and he traded with European merchants in the same area. He bought a slave from a ship, once in a while, and sold the slave he just bought.
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Captain Hopkins bought his last slave. In all, he had 196 slaves, nine of whom he had sold to other slave traders and twenty of whom had died.
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On the eighth day of the departure of the Sally, the slaves rose in rebellion. Hopkins and the crew fired at the slaves with guns killing eigth of the slaves and wounding several others.
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The Brown brothers sent a letter to Esek Hopkins saying that "We need not mention how Disagreeable the news of your losing ...88 slaves is to us and all your friends, but yourself continuing in health is a great satisfaction to us, that we remain cheerful..."
