Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and DiscontentThis 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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... abolitionist circles in which Alexander Crummell spent his youth , and Walker's bitter attacks on the hypocrisy of Jeffersonian democracy anticipated the suspicious attitude towards democratic theory that prevailed in Crummell's ...
... abolitionist circles in which Alexander Crummell spent his youth , and Walker's bitter attacks on the hypocrisy of Jeffersonian democracy anticipated the suspicious attitude towards democratic theory that prevailed in Crummell's ...
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... abolitionist activities . In 1833 , black New Yorkers founded the Phoenix Society of New York , with Boston Crummell serving on its board of directors.21 The Phoenix Society is believed to have had the widest influence and largest ...
... abolitionist activities . In 1833 , black New Yorkers founded the Phoenix Society of New York , with Boston Crummell serving on its board of directors.21 The Phoenix Society is believed to have had the widest influence and largest ...
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... abolitionists . Boston Crummell and other members of the black convention nonetheless constituted a committee that recommended continuing their efforts to establish the school despite the pre- vailing hostility.24 Two years later ...
... abolitionists . Boston Crummell and other members of the black convention nonetheless constituted a committee that recommended continuing their efforts to establish the school despite the pre- vailing hostility.24 Two years later ...
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... abolitionist Lewis Tappan , destroying much of its contents and building a bonfire with the furniture . The next day , mobs attacked the Laight Street church , presided over by Dr. Samuel Cox , a white abolitionist . The greatest ...
... abolitionist Lewis Tappan , destroying much of its contents and building a bonfire with the furniture . The next day , mobs attacked the Laight Street church , presided over by Dr. Samuel Cox , a white abolitionist . The greatest ...
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... abolitionists had helped him to acquire , he departed for the Noyes Academy in Canaan , New Hampshire . But rural New ... abolitionist activities of the youths as well as to prejudice . Crummell and his friends had arrived in the spring ...
... abolitionists had helped him to acquire , he departed for the Noyes Academy in Canaan , New Hampshire . But rural New ... abolitionist activities of the youths as well as to prejudice . Crummell and his friends had arrived in the spring ...
Contents
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3 The Struggles of a Young Priest 18411847 | 34 |
4 Arrival in England 18481849 | 52 |
5 Cambridge Influences 18491853 | 67 |
6 Adjustment to Africa 18531861 | 89 |
7 Changing Attitudes in America and a Visit Home 18531863 | 119 |
8 Liberia College and the Politics of Knowledge 18631867 | 146 |
11 Reconsidering the Destiny of Black Americans 18721882 | 196 |
12 A Man of Mark 18821894 | 222 |
13 Pastor Emeritus 18941896 | 242 |
The American Negro Academy 18961898 | 258 |
15 Crummells Universality and Significance | 276 |
Notes | 303 |
Bibliography | 348 |
Constitution and ByLaws of the American Negro Academy | 365 |
9 Last Battles with the Bishop 18671870 | 162 |
10 Missionary Work and Final Disillusionment 18701872 | 179 |
Index | 367 |
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