Summary
Deaf-mute Black man claiming a South African home, communicating by a note written in Hebrew, who turned up in Parkersburg, West Virginia after being put ashore penniless from a sailing vessel; vouched for by Hebrew scholar M. A. Kuder and aided toward Baltimore. Part of the general black-Jewish-traveller press cluster CWB collected re: Abdullah's identity; no name given in the clipping.

Events involving this person

2 July 1896 (probable)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette item ('A Hebrew's Strange Story') reporting that a deaf-mute Black man, claiming his home was in South Africa, turned up in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and handed a clothing-st