Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent

by Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Book Overview

This remarkable biography, based on much new information, examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Born in New York in 1819, Alexander Crummell was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, after being denied admission to Yale University and the Episcopal Seminary on purely racial grounds. In 1853, steeped in the classical tradition and modern political theory, he went to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195050967
• ISBN13: 9780195050967
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"