TY  - BOOK
AU  - James,Winston
TI  - The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851 
SN  - 9780814742891
AV  - E448.R96 J36 2016
U1  - 966.6202092 23
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - African American intellectuals
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Liberia
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Sources
KW  - Pan-Africanism
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1799-1851
KW  - Africa
KW  - African
KW  - American
KW  - Americans
KW  - Americas
KW  - Bowdoin
KW  - Brown
KW  - College
KW  - Despite
KW  - Freedoms
KW  - John
KW  - Journal
KW  - Maines
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Pan-African
KW  - Pan-Africanist
KW  - Russwurm
KW  - Russwurms
KW  - States
KW  - United
KW  - abolitionist
KW  - accomplishments
KW  - almost
KW  - and
KW  - annals
KW  - before
KW  - black
KW  - co-founder
KW  - colonizationist
KW  - completely
KW  - dilemma
KW  - edited
KW  - editor
KW  - educator
KW  - emigration
KW  - emigrationist
KW  - experienced
KW  - eye
KW  - fight
KW  - first
KW  - firsts
KW  - following
KW  - from
KW  - government
KW  - governor
KW  - graduate
KW  - internally
KW  - kind
KW  - life
KW  - missing
KW  - movement
KW  - newspaper
KW  - official
KW  - operated
KW  - ordeal
KW  - owned
KW  - perennial
KW  - pioneering
KW  - played
KW  - public
KW  - resolved
KW  - role
KW  - section
KW  - stay
KW  - struggled
KW  - whether
KW  - with
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N2  - "If I know my own heart, I can truly say, that I have not a selfish wish in placing myself under the patronage of the [American Colonization] Society; usefulness in my day and generation, is what I principally court.""Sensible then, as all are of the disadvantages under which we at present labour, can any consider it a mark of folly, for us to cast our eyes upon some other portion of the globe where all these inconveniences are removed where the Man of Colour freed from the fetters and prejudice, and degradation, under which he labours in this land, may walk forth in all the majesty of his creation-a new born creature-a Free Man!"-John Brown Russwurm, 1829.John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) is almost completely missing from the annals of the Pan-African movement, despite the pioneering role he played as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist and colonizationist. Russwurm's life is one of "firsts": first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College; co-founder of Freedom's Journal, America's first newspaper to be owned, operated, and edited by African Americans; and, following his emigration to Africa, first black governor of the Maryland section of Liberia. Despite his accomplishments, Russwurm struggled internally with the perennial Pan-Africanist dilemma of whether to go to Africa or stay and fight in the United States, and his ordeal was the first of its kind to be experienced and resolved before the public eye.With this slim, accessible biography of Russwurm, Winston James makes a major contribution to the history of black uplift and protest in the Early American Republic and the larger Pan-African world. James supplements the biography with a carefully edited and annotated selection of Russwurm's writings, which vividly demonstrate the trajectory of his political thinking and contribution to Pan-Africanist thought and highlight the challenges confronting the peoples of the African Diaspora. Though enormously rich and powerfully analytical, Russwurm's writings have never been previously anthologized.The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm is a unique and unparalleled reflection on the Early American Republic, the African Diaspora and the wider history of the times. An unblinking observer of and commentator on the condition of African Americans as well as a courageous fighter against white supremacy and for black emancipation, Russwurm's life and writings provide a distinct and articulate voice on race that is as relevant to the present as it was to his own lifetime
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