04271nam 2200769Ia 450 991082668560332120200520144314.00-8147-4290-40-8147-4314-50-8147-4372-210.18574/nyu/9780814742891.001.0001(CKB)2670000000042030(EBL)865574(OCoLC)779828129(SSID)ssj0000140084(PQKBManifestationID)11144771(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140084(PQKBWorkID)10029277(PQKB)10636146(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323735(MiAaPQ)EBC865574(OCoLC)662461505(MdBmJHUP)muse4828(DE-B1597)547482(DE-B1597)9780814743720(EXLCZ)99267000000004203020100330d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe struggles of John Brown Russwurm the life and writings of a pan-Africanist pioneer, 1799-1851 /Winston James1st ed.New York New York University Press20101 online resource (320 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-2195-8 0-8147-4289-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; A Note on Quotations; PART I: John Brown Russwurm; Prologue: The Man Out of Place; 1 From Boy to Man; 2 Freedom's Journal: Pleading Our Own Cause; 3 Quitting America and Its Cost; 4 ""We Have Found a Haven"": In the Land of His Fathers; 5 Governor Russwurm: The Cape Palmas Years; Epilogue: Russwurm in His Rightful Place; PART II: Selected Writings of John Brown Russwurm; Editorial Note; 1 Early Writings; The Condition and Prospects of Hayti; 2 Writings from Freedom's Journal; Part A. Uplift, Abolitionism, and Opposition to ColonizationPart B. Our Views Are Materially Altered: Looking toward Liberia3 Writings from Liberia; Part A. First Impressions: Two Early Letters from Liberia; Part B. Writings from the Liberia Herald; Part C. Letters Home from Afar to a Brother; Part D. Governor Russwurm: Departing from the Old and Beaten Paths; Part E. Sometimes We Despond a Little: Some Candid and Private; Part F. Home from Home: A Visit to Maine and After; Part G. ""None in Your Employ Eat the Bread of Idleness in Africa"": A Governor's Dispatches; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YAbout the Author"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 cAfrican American intellectualsBiographyPan-AfricanismHistory19th centuryAfrican AmericansColonizationLiberiaHistory19th centuryPan-AfricanismHistory19th centurySourcesAfrican AmericansColonizationLiberiaHistory19th centurySourcesLiberiaHistoryTo 1847LiberiaHistoryTo 1847SourcesAfrican American intellectualsPan-AfricanismHistoryAfrican AmericansColonizationHistoryPan-AfricanismHistoryAfrican AmericansColonizationHistory966.62/02092BJames Winston1160225Russwurm John Brown1799-1851.1699258MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826685603321The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm4081371UNINA