John Brown (fugitive slave)

John Brown (c. 1810 – 1876), also known by his slave name, "Fed," was born into slavery on a plantation in Southampton County, Virginia.

Born in Southampton County, Virginia, to slave parents Joe and Nancy (called Nanny), Fed grew up with his twin siblings, Silas and Lucy.

Fed and his family all lived in a two-room cabin, with the other room occupied by his mother's niece Annike and her children.

Having to leave much family behind, Fed, his mother and brother Curtis were assigned to the lot of the second daughter and her husband, James Davis, and forced to walk to their plantation at Northampton.

[1]: 13–14 In Georgia, Fed was sold to planter Thomas Stevens, a man of Welsh descent, who had a cotton plantation and whiskey still near Milledgeville.

She published two works in the late 19th century, a memoir about Atlanta during the Civil War and a novel about antebellum plantation life, set first in Mississippi.

[3] In 2024 Dorset Museum had a display about Brown based on research carried out by Jordan Cole, a student from Bath Spa University.