As soon as he joined the school, Crummell showed his intellectual qualities. ![]() Calhoun8 saying “if he could find a Negro, who knew the Greek syntax, he would then believe that the Negro was a human being and should be treated as a man” (p.52). According to Booker (2000),7 one of the attorneys quoted the pro-slavery senator John C. Crummell swore to become a great intellectual after hearing a discussion among white lawyers. Crummell attended Canal Street School until 1835, then moved to the city of Canaan, New Hampshire, on invitation, to enroll in the Noyes Academy, a school created by abolitionists for all races. In 1831, he was enrolled in the Canal Street High School founded by Reverend Peter Williams,5 with the help of Alexander’s father, Thomas Downing,6 and other Black leaders who hired a white instructor to teach Greek and Latin. ![]() ![]() Though Boston Crummell could neither read nor write, he hired tutors and educated his children, who in turn read to him English classics, and he could by memory repeat authors like Shakespeare, Milton, and Pope3.Īt age 13, Alexander Crummell joined the African Free School4 of Mulberry Street where he completed his elementary education. His father was from a royal family of the Temne1 ethnic group in West Africa, where he lived until he was 13 years of age when he was then sold into slavery. While Alexander’s2 father became free in his adulthood, his mother was born free to a family of free Black residents in Long Island, New York. Alexander Crummell was born in New York City on Mato Boston Crummell and Charity Hicks.
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