Author of the article: Monte Sonnenberg
Publishing date: Mar 01, 2021 • March 1, 2021 • 2 minute read • Theodore Brown (left) was the son of freed slave Charles Brown and his wife Annie, of Port Ryerse. Theodore Brown and wife Theodora (right) had nine children. Their son Albert went on to become a prominent businessman in Simcoe. Handout SunMedia
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Norfolk County marked Black History Month in February with a re-telling of the remarkable history of the Brown family of Port Ryerse.
By a fluke, family patriarch Charles Brown wound up in old Norfolk County in the 1840s after his American slave owner brought him to Niagara-on-the-Lake as a prize fighter. Brown was put in the ring against various challengers while members of the crowd gambled on the outcome.
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