Campbell, Robert, 1829-1884
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Campbell, R. (Robert), 1829-1884
Campbell, Robert, of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
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Printers
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found: A pilgrimage to my motherland, 1861:title page (Robert Campbell, one of the commissioners of the Niger Valley Exploring Party)
found: Black Abolitionist Archive, https://libraries.udmercy.edu/archives/special-collections/index.php?collectionSet=&collectionCode=baa, viewed 5/24/2004:(hdg.: Campbell, Robert; usage: R. Campbell, Robert Campbell, Robt. Campbell)
found: OCLC, 5/24/2004:(hdg.: Campbell, Robert, of the Niger Valley Exploring Party; usage: Robert Campbell)
found: Wikipedia, search Nov. 29, 2021(Robert Campbell (colonist); Robert Campbell (7 May 1829 - 19 January 1884) was a Jamaican-born emigrant from the United States to Nigeria; initially apprenticed to a printer he trained as a teacher in Spanish Town; finding his salary insufficient in the economic turmoil of post-abolition Jamaica he emigrated to Nicaragua and Panama before settling in New York in 1853; found work as a printer before being employed as a science teacher and then assistant principal at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia; in 1858 Campbell joined Martin R. Delany on the Niger Valley Exploring Party to look for a suitable site for the settlement of black Americans in West Africa; born on 7 May 1829 in Kingston, Jamaica; died 19 January 1884 in Lagos, Nigeria) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Campbell_(colonist)
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2004-05-24: new
2021-11-30: revised
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