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A Child Of The Atlantic: The Maine Years Of John Brown Russwurm, Carl Patrick Burrowes

Maine History

Celebrated in life as co-founder of America’s first black newspaper, John Brown Russwurm was the embodiment of an Atlantic Creole. Born in Jamaica to a white American father and a black Jamaican mother, as a young man Russwurm moved to North America. Throughout his teens and twenties, his “home” was southern Maine, and he was given a good secondary education there. After finishing school, Russwurm taught in several black schools in Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston. It was in these cities that he came into contact with America’s free black leaders, some of whom supported the movement to colonize …

History Of The American Colony In Liberia, From December 1821 To 1823, J. Ashmun

Maine History Documents

From page one: A Memoir of the Exertions and Sufferings of the American Colonists, connected with the occupation of Cape Montserado: embracing the particular History of the Colony of Liberia from December 1821 to 1823.

Written by Jehudi Ashmun, one of the first two professors of the Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine. He retained his professorship during the period of working in the new colony of Monrovia, Liberia.