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Dr Alexander Falconbridge - Fever
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Dr Alexander Falconbridge, describes an outbreak of fever on board the ship: Added: 13th Mar 2008 by Diane Earl
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Subjects: History, Citizenshipfluxes and fevers among the negroes followed. I frequently went down among them, till at length their apartments became so excessively hot as to be only bearable for a very short time... The floor of their rooms was so covered in the blood and mucus which had come from them because of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house... An Account of the Slave Trade (1788) Key Stages: KS2, KS3, KS4, KS4+ Learning Groups: Teachers, Parents, Pupils, Others |
