Amelia Lewsham ma ọ bụ Amelia Harlequin ma ọ bụ Amelia Newsham (c. 1748 - mgbe 1797) bụ nwanyị Jamaica amụrụ na albinism, bụrụ ohu ma gosipụta ya dị ka "White Negress" na London, ma mee ya nyocha ahụike na ndị na-ahụ maka okike. Ọ tọhapụrụ onwe ya ma mesịa ghọọ nwanyị ọchụnta ego na-eme ihe ngosi nke onwe ya nke ọma[1]

Amelia Lewsham

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A mụrụ Lewsham gburugburu 1748, na Jamaica, ikekwe Spanish Town ebe nne ya rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-ejere onye nwe ya ọrụ. Nne na nna ya abuo abuo oji ma amuru ya albino. Lewsham bụ ihe onwunwe nke Sir Simon Clarke 6th baronet onye nwere mmasị na ya nke mere na o zigara Lewshem, mgbe ahụ dị ihe dị ka afọ ise, na England na 1753 dịka onyinye nye nwa ya nwoke nke abụọ Kingsmill Clarke, onye ọka iwu nke Templelọ Nsọ. Clarke kwetara ire nwa agbọghọ ahụ mgbe ọ rịọrọ maka 400 Guinea.

 
Ihu mkpụrụ ego 1795

Onye nwe ya ọhụrụ, Burnet, nwere ụlọ ahịa na London ma ya na Lewsham gara mba ahụ, na-akwụ ndị ahịa ụgwọ shilling iji hụ nwa agbọghọ ahụ pụrụ iche. Burnet gosiri ya ma Royal Society ma Royal Family ma mgbe ọ na-eme njem, a kpọrọ ya "Amelia Harleguin" n'ọnwa Eprel afọ 1766. N'ịbụ onye baptism nyere ike, Lewsham hapụrụ onye nwe ya wee malite igosi onwe ya. Amelia lụrụ di ma mụọ ụmụ isii na nwoke aha ya bụ Lewsham ma ọ bụ Newsham.[1]

Afọ iri na otu ka e mesịrị, Olaudah Equiano hụrụ ya na London. N'afọ 1795, Thomas Hall gosipụtara ya na Finsbury Square na ikekwe na Bartholomew Fair . Ọ bụ W. Lutwtyche nke Birmingham mepụtara mkpụrụ ego ncheta. Otu akụkụ nke mkpụrụ ego ahụ gosipụtara Lewsham na ozi "MRS. NEWSHAM THE WHITE NEGRESS". Ihu ya kwuru "The First Artist in Europe for Preserving Birds Beasts" na "T.Hall Citty Road near Finsbury Square London 1795" Ihu ọzọ dere na Thomas Hall na-egosi Amelia na "Curiosity House" na City Road. [2]

Ọ lụrụ Maazị Lewsham ma ọ bụ Newsham, na nwoke Bekee, ma nwee ọ dịkarịa ala ụmụ isii.[1] O yikarịrị ka Lewsham nwụrụ na UK mana a maghị ụbọchị.

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