William Cooper Nell

CTL-E-1593 · Person · journalist · 1850s-1870s

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Abolitionist writer and historian; author of The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution (1855); campaigned for the Boston Massacre monument.

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Crispus Attucks — related to → this record
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution — authored by → this record

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