[ American Revolution - East Florida - Tropical Medicine - Slavery ] [Manuscript document from John Moultrie dated May 16, 1784] Thoughts that may be of use to my people and plantation in the Bahamas and orders that I beg may be obeyed

Moultrie

Verlag: Moultrie, 1784

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Moultrie / 1784 May 16 / [ American Revolution - East Florida - Tropical Medicine - Slavery ] [Manuscript document from John Moultrie dated May 16, 1784] Thoughts that may be of use to my people and plantation in the Bahamas and orders that I beg may be obeyed (SPD 5, 86627) Folio. Folded lettersheet of laid paper, with GR and postillion watermark, countersigned JB. 4 pages of manuscript text. A few tiny pinholes along center fold and to top corners. Couple of small spot stains. Overall clean and very good. Please note that in the 1966 catalog entry for this letter, it is described as being "6 pages, folio (last 2 pages very defective)". We conclude that the last two pages were unfortunately lost or discarded due to being very defective. "I look on myself as a Patron and Protector as well as master to my negroes." Prominent East Florida Loyalist and Colonial Doctor's Instructions on Medical Treatment of Enslaved People. Laudanum and Mercury: Extensive Medical Advice From the "First Native South Carolina Physician to Practice in the Colony" A fascinating handwritten document by John Moultrie, Lt. Governor of East Florida and a prominent plantation owner who had come to Florida from South Carolina. Likely written from St. Augustine, the capital of East Florida, these handwritten instructions are dated May 16, 1784, shortly before Moultrie sailed for London in July of the same year following the British cession of Florida to Spain. The document is captioned by Moultrie: Thoughts that may be of use to my people and plantation in the Bahamas and orders that I beg may be obeyed. The text, evidently written when Moultrie was preparing to return to Great Britain after serving as a deputy governor of East Florida, is largely given to advice on how to treat illnesses, but the conclusion of the Thoughts is devoted to Moultrie s instructions on the treatment of enslaved persons, naming specific people such as "Old Frank" and Quamino, and including the unintentionally ironic admonition, I would have them made as happy as their condition will admit. This is an important summary document on the British experience in Colonial East Florida, a period that lasted just over twenty years, from 1763 to 1784. The memorandum reveals the outlook and preoccupations of this important colonial physician, planter, and slave owner as he contemplated the loss of his fortune following Britain's defeat in the Revolution. Moultrie was intimately involved in the British project to turn Florida into a slave plantation aristocracy like the rest of the Southeast. Dr. John Moultrie, Jr. as a physician Moultrie was born to the famous South Carolina family of that name in Charleston in 1729. John was the older brother of General William Moultrie, who defended Charleston from the British during the Revolution. John was the only one of the four living Moultrie brothers to side with the Loyalists during the Revolution. Moultrie's father, Dr. John Moultrie (Sr.), was educated as a doctor at the University of Edinburgh. Moultrie Jr. followed in his father's footsteps and traveled to Scotland to receive his medical education in 1746. The South Carolina Encyclopedia says of his medical training: .he received his M.D. in 1749. He was the first native-born American to graduate in medicine from Edinburgh, which was then emerging as the leading medical school in the western world. Moultrie s Latin dissertation on yellow fever, De Febre Maligna Biliosa Americae (On the American Malignant Bilious Fever), is notable as one of the earliest clinical descriptions of the disease to come from North America. The work was based on careful ob. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 86627

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Titel: [ American Revolution - East Florida - ...

Verlag: Moultrie

Erscheinungsdatum: 1784

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Zustand: VG

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