(AFRICA LIBERIA) CRUMMELL ALEXANDER The Duty of a Rising Ch

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(AFRICA--LIBERIA.) CRUMMELL, ALEXANDER. The Duty of a Rising Christian State to Contribute to the World's Well-Being and Civilization and the Means by Which it may Perform the Same. The Annual Oration before the Common Council and the Citizens of Monrovia, Liberia, July 26, 1855; Being the Day of National Independence. 31, [1] pages. 8vo, original printed tan wrappers. Small institutional stamp on the front wrapper (AAS) otherwise and exceptional copy. London: Wertheim & Macintosh, 1856

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Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) was a pioneering African-American Episcopal priest, professor and African nationalist. Ordained in the United States, he went to England in the late 1840s to raise money for his church by lecturing on American slavery. Abolitionists supported his three years of study at Cambridge, where he developed concepts of pan-Africanism.