The Free African Society During The 1760's

The Free African Society had helped a lot during the Yellow Fever times in the 1760’s. The Society had did the “dirty work”, which means that they had done the jobs that no one else wanted to do. An example of one of these jobs, was finding the people who were sick with yellow fever, and bringing them to hospitals and caring for them. Another job they had done to help with, was to clean the environment, which means they went out onto the streets and collected corpses to bury. When they had done these deeds they had expected respect from the community, but instead got the opposite. The Society had instead gotten accused of spreading the disease.