John Brown Russwurm
✓ Source-basedrisingJamaican-American politician
PoliticiansLived 1799 to 1851 · aged 51
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John Brown Russwurm was a Jamaican-born American abolitionist, newspaper publisher, and colonist of Liberia, where he moved from the United States. He was born in Jamaica to an English father and enslaved mother.
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John Brown Russwurm was a Jamaican-born American abolitionist, newspaper publisher, and colonist of Liberia, where he moved from the United States. He was born in Jamaica to an English father and enslaved mother. As a child he traveled to the United States with his father and received a formal education, becoming the first black person to graduate from Hebron Academy and Bowdoin College.
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1799 to 1851 · aged 51
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