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From the dust jacket:
One of the first two of his race to graduate from college; editor of Freedom's Journal, the first Negro newspaper in the United States; governor of a colony in Africa–this was John Brown Russwurm.
He was the son of a black slave woman and a white Jamaican planter. His American family was white; his racial identification was black. And he lived at a time when the United States was plunging toward civil war, a time when many of the white people who hated slavery nevertheless also believed that freed slaves should be sent out of the country.
Colonization–the name of this movement–was a detested word among black people. Yet, in a decision that turned many of his own people against him, John Brown Russwurm became embroiled in it.
With both sensitivity and power Mary Sagarin discusses the decisions Russwurm faced and the background that formed him, thus providing a dramatic picture of a signigicant but little-known facet of our history.
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