59:. His daughter Funicai was sold into slavery as a child, by her mother Twahalla, who was sold by King George for assisting the settlers of the American colonization society. King Funacai was resentful towards the Americans for attempting to stop the slave trade, in which he was very active, and resettling freedmen there. He attacked them relentlessly and forbade his people from helping them. Twahalla disobeyed, and he sold her. She then sold his favorite daughter, which was Funicai and they were both transported to Guyana by a Dutch shipping agent. Her surviving daughter was McKane's mother.
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Nursing school and hospital, the McKane Hospital for Women and Children. The hospital faced a continual lack of funding, in spite of numerous fundraisers. In 1901, the hospital's Board of Trustees petitioned the city of Savannah for assistance in
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Liberia to study native languages and Arabic. He became an instructor in rural Sherbro, and eventually met the youngest sister of his great-grandmother, who said, "Tako-neh-ebenu Allah! (You have come bring God!)". He resolved to get more education and return to his people as a
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Liberia, McKane began to have doubts about the enterprise. He found that the ACS did not support the colonists as they had promised. He felt that this contributed to the very high mortality rate of settlers. He criticized the organizations as people who "care
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Liberia. There, they founded McKane's Hospital and Training School in Monrovia. However, Alice McKane became ill with African Fever, and in 1896 the couple returned to Savannah with their daughter, who unfortunately died shortly afterwards.
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Savannah, Georgia as he had heard of a need for medical doctors to serve the African descended community there. He co-founded the Southern Medical Association with three other doctors in 1892. In 1904, they expanded membership to dentists and pharmacists.
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Liberia and Africa as a whole. He spoke to audiences about the potential of the land and the opportunities to be had for Black Americans in Africa. He worked with the
35:. The descendant of an African king, he was urged by his grandmother to return to his African roots to help his people. Upon his family's return to the United States, the Doctors McKane founded a hospital for African-Americans.
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