Benjamin Rush commonplace book, 1792-1813

Culture:

Miami includes: Myaamiaki

Language: English

Date: 1792-1813

Contributor: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

Subject: Medicine | Little Turtle, 1747?-1812 | Physical anthropology

Type: Text

Genre: Journals

Extent: 373 p.

Description:  This item primarily contains entries about prominent people (primarily accounts of their deaths) and matters pertaining to life in Philadelphia. Some Indigenous-related content includes questions for Meriwether Lewis on Indigenous physical history, medicine, morals, and religion; a meeting with Captain Wells and the Myaamia leader, Little Turtle; plus some speculations on Indigenous skin color at the equator.

Collection: Benjamin Rush commonplace book, 1792-1813 Mss.B.R89c

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