William G. Allen
(1820-1888)
African American abolitionist
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William Gustavus Allen (c.– 1 May 1888) was an African-American academic, intellectual, and lecturer. For a time he co-edited The National Watchman, an abolitionist newspaper. While studying law in Boston he lectured widely on abolition, equality, and integration. He was then appointed a professor of rhetoric and Greek at New-York Central College, the second African-American college professor in the United States. (The first was his predecessor at Central College, Charles L. Reason.) He saw himself as an academic and intellectual.
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1820 Urbana, Virginia
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1 May 1888 (aged 67) London, England
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