Samuel Eli Cornish

สถานที่: Sussex County

เกิด: 1795

ความตาย: 1858

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Samuel Eli Cornish (1795 – November 6, 1858) was an American Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, publisher, and journalist. He was a leader in New York City's small free black community, where he organized the first congregation of black Presbyterians in New York. In 1827 he became one of two editors of the newly founded Freedom's Journal, the first black newspaper in the United States. In 1833 he was a founding member of the interracial American Anti-Slavery Society. He was born in Sussex County, Delaware and died in Brooklyn, New York.