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Russwurm, John Brown
Born: 1799 AD
Died: 1851 AD, at 52 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Died: 1851 AD, at 52 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
US abolitionist, editor, and publisher
probably 3rd black to graduate from college in US 1826, graduating from Bowdoin College eleven days after Edward Austin Jones graduated from Amherst College
with Samuel Cornish, co-founded "Freedom's Journal" 1827 (1st black-run newspaper in US)
immigrated to Liberia 1828
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