Brown will soon be on exhibit at Hattiesburg’s African American Military History Museum. A Navy tunic, believed to have once belonged to Brown, has been donated to the museum by military ...

a long brown tunic made of coarse cloth, and a brown woolen kirtle—the knee-length sleeved shirt that tenth-century Norsemen used to pull over their heads. His sheepskin-lined scabbard is brown ...

The hues were achieved by boiling the dyed textiles in metal-lined vats at workshops run by slaves who, by contrast, wore plain, brown tunics. “It’s quite unpleasant conditions for the slaves ...