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Robert J. Patterson

1809–1884

Canada

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Robert J. Patterson (1809–1884) was a former slave and a restaurateur in Saint John, New Brunswick. Patterson was born enslaved in Richmond, Virginia, in November 1809. He escaped slavery in 1842 and made his way north first to New York and then to Boston, where he lived for ten years.

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