Easmon family
John Farrell Easmon (seated) and his brother Albert Whiggs Easmon
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| Current region | Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Place of origin | United States |
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The Easmon family is a Sierra Leone Creole medical dynasty of African American descent originally based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The Easmon family has ancestral roots in the United States, and in particular Savannah, Georgia and other states in the American South. There are several descendants of the Sierra Leonean family in the United States and in Accra, Ghana and Kumasi, Ghana. The family produced several medical doctors beginning with John Farrell Easmon, the medical doctor who coined the term Blackwater fever and wrote the first clinical diagnosis of the disease linking it to malaria and Albert Whiggs Easmon, who was a leading gynaecologist in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Several members of the family were active in academia, politics, the arts including music, cultural dance, playwrighting and literature, history, anthropology, cultural studies, and anti-colonial activism against racism.
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