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.
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