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Content Enable editor Use plain text Code entry [Morton’s stolen male slaves included Peter, Scipio, Doctor (whose name suggests a specialized function or skill), Cushi, Arro, Emo, Caesar and Sambo. The women included Frank, Bess, and Mammy. Sambo was the Hausa name for a second son, while in Mende or Vai it meant “disgrace.” Cushi may have been “Quashee,” the Twi day-name for Sunday, which also came to signify “foolish” or “stupid.” For a discussion of slave naming, see Wood, Black Majority. The man who stole the canoe were named Conano, Jesse, Jacque, Gran Domingo (Big Sunday), Cambo, Mingo, Dicque, and Robi. Wood suggests that forms of the name Jack derived from the African day named for Wednesday, Cueto. Names of two women and a little girl were not given. The owners of the fugitives who escaped in the canoe were: Samuel de Bordieu, Mingo, his wife and daughter; John Bird, two men; Joab Howe, one man; John Berresford, one woman; Christopher Smith, one man; Robert Cuthbert, three men. William Dunlop’s Mission. (Landers)]

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