Do any know who african american john brown is?
John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) was an American abolitionist from Jamaica, known for his newspaper, Freedom’s Journal. He moved from the United States to govern the Maryland section of an African American colony in Liberia, dying there in 1851. In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed John Brown Russwurm on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans Russwurm, John Browne (1799–1851), journalist and editor. Born a slave in Jamaica, John Browne Russwurm was sent by his white father to Quebec in 1807 to go to school. In his early teens Russwurm rejoined his father in Portland, Maine, where he was given an opportunity to continue his intellectual development. In 1824, Russwurm enrolled in Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, from which he graduated in 1826 with one of the first bachelor’s degrees earned by an African American in the United States. Migrating to New York, Russwurm formed a partnership with Samuel Cornish, a black Presbyterian minister, to found a newspaper. The result of t
