Edward Wilmot Blyden

Edward Wilmot Blyden was born on 3 August 1832 in St Thomas, in the Danish West Indies, to free Black parents. Turned away in 1850 by three American seminaries because of his colour, he went to Liberia, where he was a journalist, a professor of Greek and Latin, then president of the country's college, Secretary of State and Secretary of the Interior. He represented Liberia in London and Paris, stood as a candidate for its presidency in 1885, and from 1901 to 1906 directed the education of Muslims in Sierra Leone. He died in Freetown on 7 February 1912.

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• EssayChristianity, Islam and the Negro RaceEdward Wilmot Blyden · 1887Literature