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Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent

By Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Book information

Year
1989
ISBN
0195050967, 9780870237966, 9780195050967, 0870237969
LCC
E185.97.C87 M67 1992
Open Library ID
OL1560065M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (27823404 bytes)
Pages
400\391
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This remarkable biography, based on much new information, examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Born in New York in 1819, Alexander Crummell was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, after being denied admission to Yale University and the Episcopal Seminary on purely racial grounds. In 1853, steeped in the classical tradition and modern political theory, he went to the Republic of Liberia as an Episcopal missionary, but was forced to flee to Sierra Leone in 1872, having barely survived republican Africa's first coup. He accepted a pastorate in Washington, D.C., and in 1897 founded the American Negro Academy, where the influence of his ideology was felt by W.E.B. Du Bois and future progenitors of the Garvey Movement. A pivotal nineteenth-century thinker, Crummell is essential to any understanding of twentieth-century black nationalism.

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