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EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN (1832 - 1912)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

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• Anthologies:

  • Black Spokesman: Selected Published Writings of Edward Wilmot Blyden.   Ed. Hollis R. Lynch.  London: Frank Cass; New York: Humanities Press, 1971.

• Individual Works:

  • African Life and Customs.  London, C. M. Phillips, 1908.  Rpt. Baltimore: Black Classic, 1994.
  • West Africa Before Europe.  London, C. M. Phillips, 1905.
  • "The Negro in the United States."  A. M. E. Church Review (Jan. 1900): .
  • "America in Africa." Christian Advocate I (July 28, 1898) and II (August 4, 1898): .
  • "Study and Race."  1893.
  • "The African Problem and the Method of its Solution."  73rd Anniversary of the American Colonisation Society, Washington DC, January 18, 1890.
    • African American Philosophy: Selected Readings.  Ed. Tommy L. Lott.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Higher Education, 2001.  76-85.
  • "The Elements of Permanent Influence." Discourse Delivered at the 15th St. Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., Sunday, February 16 1890; Washington: R. L. Pedleton, printer, 1890.
  • Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race.  London: W. B. Whittingham, 1887.  Rpt. 1888. 
    • Rpt. Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh P, 1967.
  • "The Origin and Purpose of African Colonization."  A Discourse Delivered at the 66th Anniversary of the American Colonization Society, Washington, D. C., January 14, 1883.
  • "Liberia at the American Centennial."  Methodist Quarterly Review (July, 1877): .
  • "Africa for the Africans."  African Repository (January, 1872): .
  • Report on the Falaba Expedition 1872, Addressed to His Excellency Governor J. Pope Hennessy, C. M. G..  Published by authority Freetown, Sierra Leone. Printed at the Government office, 1872.
  • "Liberia as a Means, Not an End."  Liberian Independence Oration, July 26, 1867;  African Repository, Washington. November, 1867.
  • "The Call of Providence to the Descendants of Africa in America: a Discourse Delivered to Coloured Congregations in the Cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Harrisburg, during the Summer of 1862."  Liberia's Offering (1862): .
    • African American Philosophy: Selected Readings.  Ed. Tommy L. Lott.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Higher Education, 2001.  66-76.
    • I AM BECAUSE WE ARE: Readings in Black Philosophy.  Ed. Fred Lee Hord and Jonathan Scott Lee.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1995.  121-135.
  • "A Vindication of the African Race; Being a Brief Examination of the Arguments in Favor of African Inferiority."  Liberia's Offering (1862): .  (First Published in Liberia, in August, 1857)
  • "The Negro in Ancient History, Liberia: Past, Present, and Future."  Methodist Quarterly Review (January ): .

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

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• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Holden, Edith.  Blyden of Liberia: an Account of the Life and Labors of Edward Wilmot Blyden.  1966.

  • Lynch, Hollis R.  Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot, 1832-1912.  1967.

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WWW RESOURCES

• Africa Within: Edward Wilmot Blyden
• Columbia University: Virtual Museum of the Life and Work of E. W. Blyden

PHILWEB was last updated: October 15, 2009

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