Queens' members and the Slave Trade

This pamphlet contains a speech made in 1855 by <a href="https://www.queensoldlibrary.org/Exhibitions/Enslavement-Salvation/Alexander-Crummell"><u>Alexander Crummell</u></a> to celebrate Liberian National Independence Day. At once pragmatic and idealistic, Crummell imagines a future for the West African nation of Liberia. His vision for progress includes the development of infrastructure and agriculture, as well as the cultural advancement of Liberian citizens; ‘citizens with large expanded minds, a fine culture with natural or acquired manners, and a constant delicate honor, giving strength and solidarity at home, and fair fame, respect and character abroad’. This speech encapsulates Crummell's persistently Eurocentric outlook, as well as his desire for Liberia to be independent and resistant to foreign domination, with Liberian Christians able to shape the ideas of Europe in turn through their own excellence.
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<b>Author:</b> Alexander Crummell<br>
<b>Title:</b><i> The Duty of a Rising Christian State </i> (London, 1856)<br>
<b>Shelfmark:</b> <a href="https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/1nnjft8/44CAM_ALMA21684082280003606"> Y.1.9</a><br>

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This pamphlet contains a speech made in 1855 by Alexander Crummell to celebrate Liberian National Independence Day. At once pragmatic and idealistic, Crummell imagines a future for the West African nation of Liberia. His vision for progress includes the development of infrastructure and agriculture, as well as the cultural advancement of Liberian citizens; ‘citizens with large expanded minds, a fine culture with natural or acquired manners, and a constant delicate honor, giving strength and solidarity at home, and fair fame, respect and character abroad’. This speech encapsulates Crummell's persistently Eurocentric outlook, as well as his desire for Liberia to be independent and resistant to foreign domination, with Liberian Christians able to shape the ideas of Europe in turn through their own excellence.

Author: Alexander Crummell
Title: The Duty of a Rising Christian State (London, 1856)
Shelfmark: Y.1.9

Enslavement Y.1.9 exhibition