John Brown was an American merchant, politician and slave trader from Providence, Rhode Island. Together with his brothers Nicholas, Joseph and Moses, Brown was instrumental in founding Brown University and moving it to their family's former estate in Providence.
John Brown House in Providence is a National Historic Landmark
A plaque outside Brown's residence now notes his involvement in the slave trade
Brown played a leading role in the Gaspée Affair
USS Providence (1775)
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USS Providence was a sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy, originally chartered by the Rhode Island General Assembly as Katy. The ship took part in a number of campaigns during the first half of the American Revolutionary War before being destroyed by her own crew in 1779 to prevent her falling into the hands of the British after the failed Penobscot Expedition.
On the left, the replica Providence in Boston, 1980