Samuel Cornish

Journalist, Author

1795 – 1858

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Who was Samuel Cornish?

Samuel Eli Cornish was an American Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, publisher, and journalist. He was a leader in New York City's small free black community, where he organized the first congregation of black Presbyterians in New York. In 1827 he became one of two editors of the newly founded Freedom's Journal, the first black newspaper in the United States. In 1833 he was a founding member of the interracial American Anti-Slavery Society.

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Born
1795
Sussex County
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Nov 6, 1858
Brooklyn

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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