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- Graman_Quassi abstract "Kwasimukamba or Graman Quassi (also spelled Quacy, Kwasi and Quasi) (ca. 1690 – ca. 1780) was a Surinamese healer, botanist, slave and later freedman of the 18th century, who is today best known for having given his name to the plant species quassia.Kwasi's roots were among the Kwa speaking Akan people of present day Ghana, but as a child he was enslaved and brought to the New World. As a slave in Suriname, a Dutch colony in South America, he participated in the wars against the Saramaka maroons as a scout and negotiator for the Dutch, and he lost his right ear during the fighting. For this reason the Surinamese maroons remember him as a traitor.Kwasi worked as a healer of some renown, and fared so well that he was able to get his freedom and travel to the Netherlands. One of his remedies was a bitter tea that he used to treat infections by intestinal parasites, this concoction was based on the plant Quassia amara which Carolus Linnaeus named after him, as the discoverer of its medicinal properties. Quassia continues to be used in industrially produced medicines against intestinal parasites today. In contemporary accounts he was described as "one of the most extraordinary black men in Suriname, and perhaps the world"".
- Graman_Quassi birthDate "1690".
- Graman_Quassi birthYear "1690".
- Graman_Quassi deathDate "1780".
- Graman_Quassi deathYear "1780".
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- Graman_Quassi wikiPageRevisionID "663482484".
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Akan_people.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Botany.
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- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Category:1690_births.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Category:1780_deaths.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dutch_botanists.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dutch_people_of_Akan_descent.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dutch_slaves.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Saramaka.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Surinamese_emigrants_to_the_Netherlands.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Surinamese_people_of_Akan_descent.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Category:Surinamese_slaves.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Dutch_Empire.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Dutch_colonial_empire.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Ghana.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink History_of_the_Netherlands.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Kwa_languages.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Manumission.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Maroon_(people).
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Netherlands.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Quassia.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Quassia_amara.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Saramaka.
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLink Suriname.
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- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLinkText "Graman Quassi".
- Graman_Quassi wikiPageWikiLinkText "Quassi".
- Graman_Quassi dateOfBirth "1690".
- Graman_Quassi dateOfDeath "1780".
- Graman_Quassi hasPhotoCollection Graman_Quassi.
- Graman_Quassi name "Quassi, Graman".
- Graman_Quassi shortDescription "Ghanese/Surinamese botanist and freedman".
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- Graman_Quassi description "Ghanese/Surinamese botanist and freedman".
- Graman_Quassi description "Ghanese/Surinamese botanist and freedman".
- Graman_Quassi subject Category:1690_births.
- Graman_Quassi subject Category:1780_deaths.
- Graman_Quassi subject Category:Dutch_botanists.
- Graman_Quassi subject Category:Dutch_people_of_Akan_descent.
- Graman_Quassi subject Category:Dutch_slaves.
- Graman_Quassi subject Category:Saramaka.
- Graman_Quassi subject Category:Surinamese_emigrants_to_the_Netherlands.
- Graman_Quassi subject Category:Surinamese_people_of_Akan_descent.
- Graman_Quassi subject Category:Surinamese_slaves.
- Graman_Quassi hypernym Healer.
- Graman_Quassi type Agent.
- Graman_Quassi type Biologist.
- Graman_Quassi type Person.
- Graman_Quassi type Biologist.
- Graman_Quassi type Botanist.
- Graman_Quassi type Person.
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- Graman_Quassi type Thing.
- Graman_Quassi type Q215627.
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- Graman_Quassi type Person.
- Graman_Quassi comment "Kwasimukamba or Graman Quassi (also spelled Quacy, Kwasi and Quasi) (ca. 1690 – ca. 1780) was a Surinamese healer, botanist, slave and later freedman of the 18th century, who is today best known for having given his name to the plant species quassia.Kwasi's roots were among the Kwa speaking Akan people of present day Ghana, but as a child he was enslaved and brought to the New World.".
- Graman_Quassi label "Graman Quassi".
- Graman_Quassi sameAs Quassie_van_Timotibo.
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- Graman_Quassi sameAs Q2895387.
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- Graman_Quassi wasDerivedFrom Graman_Quassi?oldid=663482484.
- Graman_Quassi depiction Blake_after_John_Gabriel_Stedman_Narrative_of_a_Five_Years_copy_2_object_15-detail.jpg.
- Graman_Quassi givenName "Graman".
- Graman_Quassi isPrimaryTopicOf Graman_Quassi.
- Graman_Quassi name "Graman Quassi".
- Graman_Quassi name "Quassi, Graman".
- Graman_Quassi surname "Quassi".