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Young, William Proby, Jr. Diary, 1860.

Title: Diary, 1860.

Kept while employed by the American Colonization Society to treat African slaves confiscated by the U.S. government from slave traders, on their return trip to Africa aboard the ship "Castilian." Includes observations on the slave trade, medical treatments, punishments, concerns for sudden deaths of seemingly healthy Africans, disagreements among Africans and the ship's crew, distribution of water rations and diet, brief character sketches of crew members and some of the Africans, and mortality rates of the Africans. Also includes descriptions of Key West, Fla., and the Liberian communities of Cape Mount, Robertsport, Grand Bassa, and Monrovia, especially the housing, businesses, politics, society, and the economy, a Liberian woman owning twenty slaves, and Liberians desiring to return to American slavery.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (160 p.)

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Young, William P. (William Proby), 1834-1912. William P. Young papers, 1843-1912.

Title: William P. Young papers, 1843-1912.

Correspondence, poems and inspirational writings, obituaries, drawing, photographs, and other papers. Includes material relating to Young's attendance at the Rittenhouse Academy in Washington. Persons represented include Young's mother, Susan B. Young, and his aunt, Ellen Ross Middleton, as well as Walter S. Perry and Grafton Tyler.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70953111 View

MS 26474, John McCleve Young family history collection. 1869-1975

Title: MS 26474, John McCleve Young family history collection. 1869-1975

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