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They were all there to witness a “Great CURIOSITY”: a man named Henry Moss who was born “entirely black” but after thirty eight years had miraculously “become as white and fair as any white person.”
Vitiligo in Early American History: The Case of Henry Moss - JAMA …
Henry Moss, a man of African descent who was born in Virginia, first began to experience depigmentation of his skin at the age of 38 years, beginning on his hands and eventually extending to his arms, legs, and face.
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Henry Moss, a slave in Virginia, became arguably the most famous black man of the day when white spots appeared on his body in 1792, turning him visibly white within three years. As his skin changed, Moss marketed himself as “a great curiosity” in Philadelphia and soon earned enough money to buy his freedom.
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2023年6月19日 · As the decades passed, White Americans were forced to acknowledge that if the Black population was indeed whitening, it resulted from sexual violence and not the environment. The sense of inspiration and wonder that followed Henry Moss in the 1790s would have been impossible just a generation later. III. Jeffersonian Republicanism
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2024年8月24日 · Henry Moss, an enslaved man in Virginia, became arguably the most famous Black man of the day when white spots appeared on his body in 1792, turning him visibly white within three years. As his skin changed, Moss marketed himself as “a great curiosity” in Philadelphia and soon earned enough money to buy his freedom.
Free and Enslaved Black Americans and the Challenge to Slavery
Henry Moss, a slave in Virginia, became arguably the most famous black man of the day when white spots appeared on his body in 1792, turning him visibly white within three years. As his skin changed, Moss marketed himself as “a great curiosity” in Philadelphia and soon earned enough money to buy his freedom.
Vitiligo in history: Henry Moss
2009年4月9日 · Henry Moss, a man of African descent who was born in Virginia, first began to experience depigmentation of his skin at the age of 38 years, beginning on his hands and eventually extending to his arms, legs, and face. Four years later, in the summer of 1796, he exhibited his body for a fee in taverns in the Philadelphia area as well as before ...
Henry Moss: a body of evidence It is apt to begin with the story of Henry Moss, an African American farm-er from Virginia who in the summer of 1796 began exhibiting himself in Philadelphia taverns, revealing the outcomes of a skin transformation that must have seemed both unbelievable and shocking to the public. Accord-
Vitiligo in Early American History: The Case of Henry Moss
2008年10月1日 · Henry Moss, an African man born in Virginia has been documented in the scientific literature to be the first case report of skin pigment loss on his hands which progressed to his arms, legs, and...
Vitiligo in early American history: the case of Henry Moss
Vitiligo in early American history: the case of Henry Moss Arch Dermatol. 2008 Sep;144(9):1242. doi: 10.1001/archderm.144.9.1242.