John Brown Russworm – Maine Working-Class History

Radical Mainers: From Abolitionist to Colonizer

by Andy O'Brien
December 1, 2022June 3, 2023
Radical Mainers

The Life of John Brown Russwurm, Part III By Andy O’Brien In 1827, the year after John Brown Russwurm graduated from Bowdoin College, he and Samuel Cornish founded the New York-based Freedom’s Journal, the first Black-owned newspaper in the United States. Their… Read More »Radical Mainers: From Abolitionist to Colonizer

Radical Mainers: The Making of a Maine Abolitionist, Pan-Africanist & Pioneering Black Journalist, Part II

by Andy O'Brien
November 1, 2022June 3, 2023
Radical Mainers

Celebrating the Black Revolutionaries of Haiti at a Bowdoin Commencement by Andy O’Brien In 1819, just months after John Brown Russwurm entered Hebron Academy, his studies were cut short when a fire burned down the school’s main building. Historian Carl… Read More »Radical Mainers: The Making of a Maine Abolitionist, Pan-Africanist & Pioneering Black Journalist, Part II