new-calabar

Updated: May 18, 2025

In New-Calabar, there is a man named Amachree, who has more influence and wealth than all the rest of the community, though he himself is a purchased slave, brought from the Braspan country; he has offered the price of a hundred slaves for his freedom; but according to the laws of the country he cannot obtain it, though his master, who is a poor and obscure individual, would gladly let him have it."

Lydia Maria Francis Child - An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans