{"id":5708,"date":"2010-03-07T03:58:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T03:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2010-03-07T04:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T04:00:33","slug":"through-russwurms-eyes-the-conditions-and-prospects-of-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5708","title":{"rendered":"Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Campus News
\nBowdoin College<\/a>
\n2010-03-01<\/p>\n

John B. Russwurm<\/a>, the College’s first African-American graduate and thought to be the third African-American to graduate from an American college, delivered a commencement address in 1826 that resonates nearly 184 years later.<\/p>\n

The speech, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti,” was delivered 22 years after Haiti won independence from France<\/a>…<\/p>\n

…About John B. Russwurm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russwurm was born in <\/strong>Port Antonio, Jamaica<\/strong><\/a>, the illegitimate son of a white planter and a black slave. <\/strong>His father, John Russwurm, of a wealthy Virginia<\/a> family, went to Jamaica<\/a> after completing his education in England<\/a>. He sent his son, John Brown Russwurm, to Quebec<\/a> at age eight so that he might receive a good education. Soon after moving to Maine, his father married Susan Blanchard. Russwurm then came to live with his father’s family, where he was accepted by his step-mother as one of her own. Russwurm stayed with the family even after his father died, continuing his education at Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine<\/a>. His step-mother and her new husband helped him to enroll at Bowdoin in 1824….<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.
\nRead Russwurm’s entire speech here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’ Campus News Bowdoin College 2010-03-01 John B. Russwurm, the College’s first African-American graduate and thought to be the third African-American to graduate from an American college, delivered a commencement address in 1826 that resonates nearly 184 years later. The speech, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,6,20],"tags":[2396,96,1062,2397,2399,2398,2381],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-bowdoin-college","tag-france","tag-haiti","tag-john-b-russwurm","tag-john-brown-russwurm","tag-john-russwurm","tag-maine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}