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Louisa Bustill met William Drew Robeson I (1845-1918) when he was a student at Lincoln University. She was already teaching at the Robert Vaux School for black children. Robeson had escaped slavery in North Carolina and come north with his brother Ezekiel at age 15, and worked for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
27 de jun. de 2018 · Paul Leroy Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, the fifth and last child of Maria Louisa Bustill and William Drew Robeson. During these early years the Robesons experienced both family and financial losses.
Founded. 1732. Founder. Cyrus Bustill. Connected families. Robeson family. Douglass family. The Bustill family is a prominent American family of largely African, European and Lenape Native American descent. The family has included artists, educators, journalists and activists, both against slavery and against Jim Crow.
William Drew Robeson I (July 27, 1844 – May 17, 1918) was the minister of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey from 1880 to 1901 and the father of Paul Robeson. The Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church had been built for its black members by the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton.
18 de jul. de 2022 · Paul Robeson was the son of William Drew Robeson, a runaway slave turned Presbyterian minister, who had fled from his captors to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1860 at the age of fifteen. From there he met Robeson’s mother, Maria Louisa Bustil, a schoolteacher and member of a family of prominent anti-slavery and Jim Crow campaigners.
4 de abr. de 1998 · Robeson was the name of a white, slave-owning family in North Carolina before the American Civil War. Their Black slaves took the same surname and among them was William Drew Robeson, who ran away from the plantation, fought for the North in the Civil War and later became a Presbyterian minister and subsequently a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
31 de mai. de 2013 · William Drew Robeson (1844–1918) was born on a North Carolina plantation. At 15, on the eve of the US Civil War, he escaped from bondage. Ashley Dawson, ‘The Rise of the Black Internationale: Anti-Imperialist Activism and Aesthetics in Britain during the 1930s’, Atlantic Studies 6.2 (2009): 159.
