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Author of AMERICAN FOUNDERS: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. I study, research, teach, & tweet American history.

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Born in Jamaica to an enslaved mother in 1799, John Russwurm attended Bowdoin College & studied the Haitian Revolution. After graduation, he & Samuel Cornish founded the anti-slavery newspaper Freedom’s Journal in 1827. The paper had a national & international readership.

Born in Jamaica to an enslaved mother in 1799, John Russwurm attended Bowdoin College & studied the Haitian Revolution. After graduation, he & Samuel Cornish founded the anti-slavery newspaper Freedom’s Journal in 1827. The paper had a national & international readership.