Disowning slavery by Joanne Pope Melish

Author:Joanne Pope Melish
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Antislavery movements -- New England -- History -- 18th century, Antislavery movements -- New England -- History -- 19th century, African Americans -- Civil rights -- New England -- History -- 18th century, African Americans -- Civil rights -- New England -- History -- 19th century, Slaves -- Emancipation -- New England -- History -- 18th century, Slaves -- Emancipation -- New England -- History -- 19th century, New England -- Race relations
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

In the meantime, public interest in Henry Moss generated stories of similar cases in the popular literature and also produced lay contributions to medical periodicals. In October 1800, for example, the Monthly Magazine and American Review picked up an article published earlier in the year by the Medical Repository: “Another instance of a Negro Turning White” was the story of one Maurice whose “sable cloud is plainly disappearing on his shoulder.” 55 A year later the Medical Repository, under the headline “another Ethiopian turning to a white man,” published a letter to the editors from a Mr. A. Catlin of Lichfield, Connecticut, who reported proliferating and enlarging white spots on “Pompey, a very healthy negro,” and evinced “the fullest belief that a very few years will complete the total change.” 56 In 1809, an American Magazine of Wonders article largely recapitulated Jefferson’s litany of known African albinos but included an additional case of “a female of this kind born of black parents, married to an Englishman, whose children were mulattoes. The woman was exhibited as a show, but her children were the greatest curiosities” (presumably because both parents appeared to be entirely white). 57

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