Diary, 1860.

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Diary, 1860.

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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.

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Virginia Historical Society Library

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Castilian (Ship)

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

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Physician and ship's doctor for the American Colonization Society. From the description of Diary, 1860. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 31276726 Physician, of Washington, D.C. From the description of William P. Young papers, 1843-1912. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70953111 ...