Paper, 'An account of a negro-boy [sic] that is spotted in severall places of his body with white spotts' by Wm [William] Byrd
Reference number: CLP/14i/44
Date: 1697
Description
Byrd provides an account of a Black child born in Virginia [United States] and enslaved in England by Charles Wager. The child developed light patches of skin, likely vitiligo, from the age of three.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of a Negro-Boy [sic] that is dappel'd in several places of his body with white spots'.
Read to the Royal Society on 17 November 1697.
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- CLP/14i/44
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- 1697
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- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Byrd, Paper, 'An account of a negro-boy [sic] that is spotted in severall places of his body with white spotts' by Wm [William] Byrd, 1697, CLP/14i/44, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14i_44/paper-an-account-of-a-negro-boy-sic-that-is-spotted-in-severall-places-of-his-body-with-white-spotts-by-wm-william-byrd, accessed on 20 April 2025
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II. An account of a Negro-Boy that is dappel'd in several places of his body with white spots External link, opens in new tab.
Author: William Byrd
Date: 1st December 1697
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0142
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