Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
John Brown Russwurm
Born: October 1, 1799
Died: 1851 (aged 51)
Bio: John Brown Russwurm was an American abolitionist 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 Bowdoin College.