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[S41] Russwurm, Class of 1826, first African American at Bowdoin

Russwurm was the son of a wealthy white slaveholder named John Russwurm, and an African-American concubine named Eliza Brown.

• AUTHOR: Nick Day
• PUBLICATION: http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2009-02-13§ion=3
• NOTE:

  [396] This is the only mention of John Brown Russwurm's mother's name.

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