Turner, Lorenzo Dow
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- Turner, Lorenzo D. (Lorenzo Dow)
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- (edtf) 1890-08-21
Death Date
- (edtf) 1972-02-10
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- Organization: (naf) Howard University
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- (naf) United States
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- (naf) Africa
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- (naf) Brazil
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- found: His Anti-slavery sentiment in American literature prior to 1865, c1929.
- found: Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1895; d. 1972)
- found: Wikipedia, March 5, 2019(Lorenzo Dow Turner (Aug. 21, 1890 - Feb. 10, 1972) was an African-American academic and linguist; he is best known for his research on the Gullah language or dialect, spoken by descendants of African slaves in coastal South Carolina and Georgia; he headed the English department at Howard University in Washington; traveled to several locations in Africa, specifically Sierra Leone, to learn about the development of Creole languages, as well as to Louisiana and Brazil, to study Creole and Portuguese, respectively) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Dow_Turner
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- 1981-12-11: new
- 2019-03-06: revised
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