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We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has the public been deceived by misrepresentations, in things which concern us dearly.

John Brown Russwurm

Our time is short in this transitory world, and it therefore becomes us to labor with all our might, lest the darkness overtake us before we are aware of it.

John Brown Russwurm

John Brown Russwurm

John Brown Russwurm

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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.

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