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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.
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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. Oops something went wrong: 403.
At age 15 in 1860, Paul Robeson’s father, William Drew Robeson (1844–1918), was a fugitive from enslavement on a farm in Martin County, North Carolina. William trekked north to Pennsylvania, found work as a common laborer in the Union Army, and after the Civil War, undertook theology studies at the all-Black Lincoln University, near ...
But by the time he left slavery, William Drew Robeson already embodied aspects of slave culture that were African and later understood to be so by his son, who pointed to them in demonstrating his links to Africa. 3 Close Robeson had advantages in relation to black culture—derived directly from his family—not consciously shared by ...
all-American athlete, a famed actor and singer, a distinguished scholar and writer, and a passionate advocate for human rights. The Robesons came to Princeton when Paul’s father, William Drew Robeson, a runaway slave, was appointed pastor of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in 1879.
Many intellectuals describe Paul Robeson as one of the nation’s greatest musicians, scholars, actors, athletes, and activists of the 20th century. Born on 9 April 1898, in Princeton, New Jersey, Robeson was the youngest of five children born to William Drew Robeson, a runway enslaved African American who went on to graduate from Lincoln ...
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.
