Alexander Crummell

Alexander Crummell PDF Author: Wilson Jeremiah Moses
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195050967
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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Book Description
Based on much new information, this biography examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Crummell, educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, lived for almost twenty years in the Republic of Liberia as an Episcopal missionary, then accepted a pastorate in Washington, D.C., and founded the American Negro Academy, influencing 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.