The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm Posters & Prints Drawing on hundreds of sources

Drawing on hundreds of sources

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Rufus Porter helped transform art and science in early America—not unlike his more famous peers

The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm Posters & Prints Drawing on hundreds of sourcesBy Winston James John Brown Russwurm (1799 1851) is almost completely missing from the annals of the Pan African movement, despite the pioneering role he played as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist, and colonizationist. Russwurm's life is one of "firsts": first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College [class of 1826], co founder of Freedom's Journal, America's first newspaper to be owned, operated, and