United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Boney, F. N.2002-09-03Encyclopedia article about John Brown. A fugitive slave from Georgia, John Brown provided one of the few book-length testimonials of what it was like to be a slave in the Deep South. "Fed" (his first slave name) was born in eastern Virginia around 1810, and about ten years later he and his mother were moved to a nearby tobacco farm in North Carolina. Soon he was separated from his mother and sold south to Georgia. He grew to manhood doing hard labor on Thomas Stevens's flourishing cotton farm near Milledgeville. Brown befriended an older slave named John Glasgow, who had been a free black in the British merchant marine and had lived in England. Increasingly angry at his harsh master, Brown came to see England as his only refuge. He made several attempts to escape, but each time he was brought back and severely beaten.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Brown, John, fl. 1854Slaves--GeorgiaFugitive slaves--GeorgiaAfrican American authors--GeorgiaJohn Brown (ca. 1810-1876)Text