Brown, James
Title
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Brown, James
First name
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James
Last name
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Brown
Date of birth
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2 August 1815
Place of birth
Date of death
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1881
Place of death
Biography
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The son of a freed slave, James Brown was born in Liverpool in 1815. In 1846, he moved to the Isle of Man to work as a printing compositor. He founded the Isle of Man Times in 1861 and used this platform to wage a campaign of reforms against the Isle of Man government. This eventually led to his imprisonment in 1864 to 'purge his contempt'. After only seven-and-a-half weeks into his six months' sentence, Brown was released and was later compensated for wrongful imprisonment.
His political activism and wrongful imprisonment inspired important government reforms.
Occupation
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Journalist
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Founder of the Isle of Man Times
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Political campaigner/reformer
Gender assigned
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Male
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| Title | Alternate label | Class |
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 James Brown, reformer, journalist and founder of the Isle of Man Times (1815-1881) |
Identity of Black person (real or fictive) | E22 Man-Made Object |
‘Brown, James’ (no date), Black People in European Sculpture, accessed May 5, 2025, http://13.41.147.145/s/database/item/723
