Open AccessVI. An account of the white negro shewn before the Royal Society: In a letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Morton, President of the Royal Society, from James Parsons, M.D. F. R. S
Publication year - 1765
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9223
pISSN - 0261-0523
DOI - 10.1098/rstl.1765.0006
Subject(s) - thursday , white (mutation) , subject matter , subject (documents) , history , law , classics , political science , theology , philosophy , library science , chemistry , curriculum , gene , computer science , biochemistry
My Lord, The white boy, who was brought before this learned Society on Thursday last, came to me with his matter on Sunday afternoon; and according, to the desire of your lordship and the gentlemen present, I made the necessary inquiry into the several circumstances relative to his being born of black parents, and find the following notices very satisfactory; to which I have added some observations which, I hope, will not be foreign to the subject.