His name was Sturmann Yanghis. He was a 17-year-old South African brought by ship to the United States in 1860 with four other young men billed in the press as "wild African savages" who had "never before been brought into contact with civilization." Each represented a different Indigenous group.
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Shadows-on-the-Teche will play host to a talk Saturday with a special speaker giving all the ins and outs on health and medicine in the antebellum period.