Destiny and Race: Selected Writings, 1840-1898 by Alexander Crummell

By Alexander Crummell

An incredible 19th-century reformer and highbrow, Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) was once the 1st black American to obtain a level from Cambridge college. Upon commencement, he sailed to Liberia, the place from 1853 to 1872 he labored as a farmer, educator, small company operator, and Episcopal missionary. Returning to the USA in 1873, he verified St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., serving as its pastor until eventually 1894. Crummell remained lively within the black neighborhood all through his later years and in 1897 based the yank Negro Academy, which he meant as a problem to the facility of Booker T. Washington's accommodationist philosophy. all through his lengthy existence, Crummell used to be a prolific, occasionally debatable, and sometimes acerbic author. His pioneering paintings on black nationalism, black self-determination, and Pan-Americanism encouraged many African-American leaders of his day, together with W.E.B. Du Bois, who committed a bankruptcy to Crummell in "The Souls of Black Folk". Crummell's surviving papers contain over four hundred sermons and political essays and a voluminous correspondence. regardless of his significance to American and African-American heritage, Crummell is little identified this day. apart from the facsimile reprints of 2 of his books within the Sixties, there were no sleek printings of his paintings. This quantity is meant to revive Crummell's voice and to advised a reevaluation of his writings.

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B. Akpan, "Alexander Crummell and His African Race Work," Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, June 1976, pp. : Greenwood Press, 1987); Wilson J. : Edwin Mellen Press, 1990). The story of Boston Crummell's conversion is in the unpublished short biography of Crummell by George W. Forbes in the George W. Forbes Papers, Rare Books Room of the Boston Public Library, p. 1. Page 4 describes his years at the Oneida Institute in upstate New York. Refused admission on purely racial grounds by the General Theological Seminary [Episcopal] in New York, he was ordained by Bishop Lee of Delaware in 1844, after receiving private instruction from sympathetic clergymen.

Crummell, a man of large intellect and 2Crummell had difficulties with the mathematics sections of the first round of examinations, and failed to pass it; he thus had to take the "additional examination" which was administered to students who had been "bumped" on the first round. The additional examination was administered to thirty-seven persons and Crummell was one of eleven who passed. A description of the examination appears in Moses, Alexander Crummell, p. 71. 3Compare his claims in Jubilate to Moses, Alexander Crummell, pp.

Crummell's two addresses at the first meeting of the American Negro Academy in 1897 represent his opposition to the materialism of Booker T. Washington. Crummell believed that industrial education was necessary in order to develop a technocratic elite, but he also believed that liberal arts education was necessary for the creation of cultural and intellectual leadership. In this essay one may readily discern the roots of the "Talented Tenth" philosophy later developed in the writings of W. E.

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