Jupiter was an African American man residing in Salisbury, North Carolina. By about 1776 he was enslaved by Richard Graham, who sold Jupiter's labor to Peter Brown. According to Brown, Jupiter had self-emancipated, or tried to run away several times while enslaved by Graham. Once owned by Brown, Jupiter purportedly continued to run away from his enslaver. Whether he was captured each time or returned of his own accord was not recorded. Jupiter's eventual fate has not been located in any archival documents. He is not listed by name in either Graham's or Brown's wills.