{"product_id":"the-struggles-of-john-brown-russwurm-the-life-and-writings-of-a-pan-africanist-pioneer-1799-1851-9780814742907","title":"The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"If I know my own heart, I can truly say, that I have not a selfish wish in placing myself under the patronage of the [American Colonization] Society; usefulness in my day and generation, is what I principally court.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Sensible then, as all are of the disadvantages under which we at present labour, can any consider it a mark of folly, for us to cast our eyes upon some other portion of the globe where all these inconveniences are removed where the Man of Colour freed from the fetters and prejudice, and degradation, under which he labours in this land, may walk forth in all the majesty of his creation--a new born creature--a \u003ci\u003eFree Man\u003c\/i\u003e!\"\u003cbr\u003e--John Brown Russwurm, 1829.\u003cbr\u003eJohn Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) is almost completely missing from the annals of the Pan-African movement, despite the pioneering role he played as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist and colonizationist. Russwurm's life is one of \"firsts\" first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College; co-founder of \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, America's first newspaper to be owned, operated, and edited by African Americans; and, following his emigration to Africa, first black governor of the Maryland section of Liberia. Despite his accomplishments, Russwurm struggled internally with the perennial Pan-Africanist dilemma of whether to go to Africa or stay and fight in the United States, and his ordeal was the first of its kind to be experienced and resolved before the public eye.\u003cbr\u003eWith this slim, accessible biography of Russwurm, Winston James makes a major contribution to the history of black uplift and protest in the Early American Republic and the larger Pan-African world. James supplements the biography with a carefully edited and annotated selection of Russwurm's writings, which vividly demonstrate the trajectory of his political thinking and contribution to Pan-Africanist thought and highlight the challenges confronting the peoples of the African Diaspora. Though enormously rich and powerfully analytical, Russwurm's writings have never been previously anthologized.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Struggles of John Brown Russwurm\u003c\/b\u003e is a unique and unparalleled reflection on the Early American Republic, the African Diaspora and the wider history of the times. An unblinking observer of and commentator on the condition of African Americans as well as a courageous fighter against white supremacy and for black emancipation, Russwurm's life and writings provide a distinct and articulate voice on race that is as relevant to the present as it was to his own lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Winston James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.02w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814742907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinston James\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHolding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship from the Caribbean Studies Association; and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eInside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40589126369395,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":31.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_07fdf738-3761-4130-97b3-ae29ac5cc0eb.jpg?v=1668783709","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-struggles-of-john-brown-russwurm-the-life-and-writings-of-a-pan-africanist-pioneer-1799-1851-9780814742907","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}