ASHMUN, JEHUDI

1794–1828, U.S. agent to Liberia, b. Champlain, N.Y. After entering the Congregationalist ministry and spending a few years in teaching and editorial work, he was sent by the American Colonization Society to Liberia. He found the colony ridden with fever, short of supplies, and threatened by native attack. Ashmun with a handful of men repulsed the attacks, and for the next six years, despite severe hardships, he built up the colony. He wrote History of the American Colony in Liberia from December 1821 to 1823 (1826).

See biography by R. R. Gurley (1835, repr. 1971).

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The Great Commodore: The Exploits of Matthew Calbraith Perry
Book by Edward M. Barrows; Bobbs-Merrill, 1935
Subjects: Perry, Matthew Calbraith--1794-1858, United States--Navy--History
...Harpers Magazine , Vol. 21. ASHMUN, JEHUDI; African Intelligencer , Vol. I, No. I. Washington, 1825. ASHMUN, JEHUDI; Condition of the Colony at Liberia . Washington, 1828. ASHMUN JEHUDI; History of the American Colony...
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History and Memory in African-American Culture
Book by Geneviève Fabre, Robert O'Meally; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: African American Arts, African Americans--Historiography, African Americans--History, American Literature--African American Authors
...vernacular forms, 249 -50 Art Deco, 236 Artificiality, in history-telling, 176 Art of Memory, The Yates , 46 Ashmun, Jehudi, 141 -42 Ashton, Dore, 229 , 240 Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers Douglas , 231 , 237 -39 Astaire...
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Black Demographic Data, 1790-1860: A Sourcebook
Book by Clayton E. Cramer; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: African Americans--History--To 1863--Sources, African Americans--Statistics
...Society, 54 , 56 , 58 Antifederalists, 16 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World , 27 Arkansas, 29 tables, 136 Ashmun, Jehudi, 56 Berlin, Ira, 2 Bill of Rights, 8 black suffrage, 13 Bostick, John, 24 Calhoun, John C., 44 California...
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We Mean to Be Counted: White Women & Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Book by Elizabeth R. Varon; University of North Carolina Press, 1998
Subjects: Elite (Social Sciences)--Virginia--History--19th Century, Virginia--Politics And Government--1775-1865, Whig Party (Va.)--History, White Women--Virginia--Societies And Clubs--History--19th Century, Women In Politics--Virginia--History--19th Century, Women Social Reformers--Virginia--History--19th Century
...mission movement, 24 - 27 Antisuffragism, 9 , 93 , 176 -77, 219 -20 n. 18 Arnold, Laura Ann Jackson, 165 Ashmun, Jehudi, 67 Augusta County, 31 , 61 , 174 ; anti- slavery petition from, 50 - 51 , 194 n. 23 , 195 n. 28 Back Creek...
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Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
Book by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Carl Pedersen; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Blacks In Literature, Caribbean Literature (English)--Black Authors--History And Criticism, Fiction, Slave Trade In Literature, Slave Trade--History, Slavery In Literature, West Indian Literature (English)--History And Criticism
...8 Armstrong, Samuel C., 219 "Articulating a Caribbean Aesthetic" Rohler , 64 -65 Asante, Kete Molefi, 9 Ashmun, Jehudi, 196 , 201 n.12 Association International du Congo, 216 Atkins, John, 47 Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census Curtin...
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Exodus and Colonization: Charting the Journey in the Journals of Daniel Coker, a Descendant of Africa
Journal article by Rhondda R. Thomas; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: African American clergy--Criticism and interpretation, African American clergy--Works, Coker, Daniel--Criticism and interpretation, Coker, Daniel--Works, The Journal of Daniel Coker (Diary)--Criticism and interpretation
...to an African promised land (Ashmun 241-42). Coker began writing...Rev. Samuel Bacon (1822), Jehudi Ashmun, an ACS agent in Liberia, writes...U of Georgia P, 2005. 48. Ashmun, Jehudi. Memoir of the Life and Character...
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Baltimore's African Experiment, 1822-1827
Journal article by Bruce L. Mouser; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 80, 1995
Subjects: Africa--International trade, African Americans in business--History, Baltimore, Maryland--History
...also continued briefly through Jehudi Ashmun, the Government Agent who replaced...families. Randolph Gurley, Life of Jehudi Ashmun (New York, 1933), pp. 115...administrations of Eli Ayres and Jehudi Ashmun through 1823, see Charles Henry...
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Circular Addressed to the Colored Brethren and Friends in America
Journal article by John Saillant; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 104, 1996
Subjects: Black history, Brand, Benjamin, Cary, Lott, Colonies & territories, Correspondence, Emigration, Liberia, Professional relationships
...American Colonization Society agent, Jehudi Ashmun. These confrontations had their...from competition between Cary and Ashmun. Both had gone to Liberia to advance...and freedmen faced in Virginia, Ashmun embarrassed by debts and by publicity...
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Black Christian Republicanism: A Southern Ideology in Early Liberia, 1822 to 1847
Journal article by Carl Patrick Burrowes; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 86, 2001
Subjects: Christianity--Social aspects, Liberia--History, Republicanism--Social aspects
...Slave Testimony, 76; Ralph R. Gurley, Life of Jehudi Ashmun, Late Colonial Agent in Liberia (n.p.: James C...831-2. Compare to the Christ-centered writings of Jehudi Ashmun, the white ACS agent who governed Liberia from 1822...
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Historical Methodology and Writing the Liberian Past: the Case of Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century1
Journal article by William E. Allen; History In Africa, Vol. 32, 2005
...the archives suggest that the sharp seasonally in Liberia presented a perennial challenge to the colonists. Agent Jehudi Ashmun (1822-28) noted the difference in the agricultural manual that he prepared for the colonists: Here you can find...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ashmun Jehudi  - 3 results

 
 
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Ashmun, Jehudi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ASHMUN, JEHUDI 1794 1828, U.S. agent to Liberia, b. Champlain, N.Y. After entering...ridden with fever, short of supplies, and threatened by native attack. Ashmun with a handful of men repulsed the attacks, and for the next six years...
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Liberia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...15,000 to settle in Liberia. The survival of the colony during its early years was due primarily to the work of Jehudi Ashmun , one of the societys agents. In 1847, primarily due to British pressures, the colony was declared an independent...
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American Colonization Society
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...an agent, Eli Ayres, and Lt. R. F. Stockton of the U.S. Navy purchased land in Africa, where subsequently Jehudi Ashmun and Ralph R. Gurley laid the foundations of Liberia . The colonization movement came under the bitter attack of the...


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