John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was an abolitionist, newspaper publisher, and colonizer of Liberia where he moved from the United States. He was born in Jamaica to an English father and enslaved mother. As a child he traveled to the United States with his father and received a formal education, becoming the first African American to graduate from Hebron Academy and Bowdoin College.
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1 October 1799 Port Antonio, Jamaica
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Died |
1851 (aged 51) Cape Palmas, Liberia
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Zodiac | Libra |
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