John Brown Russwurm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Brown Russwurm

American politician

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1799

Place of Birth: Port Antonio, Surrey County, Jamaica

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1851

Profession: politician, journalist, publisher

Nationality: Jamaica

Zodiac Sign: Libra

John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was an abolitionist, newspaper publisher, and colonizer of Liberia where he moved from the United States.
He was born in Jamaica to an English father and enslaved mother.
As a child he traveled to the United States with his father and received a formal education, becoming the first African American to graduate from Bowdoin College.
As a young man, Russwurm moved from Portland, Maine, to New York City, where he was a founder with Samuel Cornish of the abolitionist newspaper, Freedom's Journal, the first paper owned and operated by African Americans. Russwurm became supportive of the American Colonization Society's efforts to develop a colony for African Americans in Africa, and he moved in 1829 to what became Liberia.
In 1836 Russwurm was selected as governor of Maryland in Africa, a small colony set up nearby by the Maryland State Colonization Society.
He served there until his death.
The colony was annexed to Liberia in 1857.