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  <dc:title>Paper, 'An account of a negro-boy [sic] that is spotted in severall places of his body with white spotts' by Wm [William] Byrd</dc:title>
  <dc: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.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1697]</dc:date>
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