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Pyrrhus Concer

1814–1897

United States

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Pyrrhus Concer (March 17, 1814 – August 23, 1897) was a formerly enslaved American sailor from Southampton, New York who was aboard the whaling ship Manhattan, the first American ship to visit Tokyo in 1845.

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