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African American intellectual history
and empire
archival edition and annotated texts
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biographical recovery of a Black thinker
Black Atlantic thought and networks
Black church history and pastoral writings
Black elite formation
Black leadership and cultural nationalism
Black scholarly institution studies
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clerical and academic careers
clerical diplomacy and international advocacy
collected essays and speeches
cultural memory and historiography
curriculum and pedagogy resources
diasporic intellectual traditions
early civil rights thought
editing and annotation for humanities courses
educational diplomacy and advocacy
elite Black newspapers and periodicals
empire sermon study
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historical introductions and critical essays
intellectual genealogy of Black activism
missionary educator in West Africa
missionary networks and colonial encounters
nineteenth-century emigration debates
Pan-African pioneer and critic
Pan-African precursors and early nationalism
postcolonial readings of nineteenth-century thought
primary sources for Black studies
race
racial uplift ideology and debate
religion
religious leadership in African diaspora
repatriation debates and Black uplift
scholarly edition for researchers
theological reflections on race
transatlantic Black mobility
transnational Black biographies
Victorian-era Black scholar
Product details
- ISBN 9780870237898
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 155 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 1992
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A major 19th-century reformer and intellectual, Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) was the first black American to receive a degree from Cambridge University. Upon graduation, he sailed to Liberia, where from 1853 to 1872 he worked as a farmer, educator, small business operator, and Episcopal missionary. Returning to America in 1873, he established St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., serving as its pastor until 1894. Crummell remained active in the black community throughout his later years and in 1897 founded the American Negro Academy, which he intended as a challenge to the power of Booker T. Washington's accommodationist philosophy. Throughout his long life, Crummell was a prolific, sometimes controversial, and often acerbic writer. His pioneering work on black nationalism, black self-determination, and Pan-Americanism influenced many African-American leaders of his day, including W.E.B. Du Bois, who devoted a chapter to Crummell in "The Souls of Black Folk". Crummell's surviving papers include over 400 sermons and political essays and a voluminous correspondence. Despite his importance to American and African-American history, Crummell is little known today.
With the exception of the facsimile reprints of two of his books in the 1960s, there have been no modern printings of his work. This volume is intended to restore Crummell's voice and to prompt a reevaluation of his writings.
