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1832–1912 Liberia

Edward Wilmot Blyden (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912) was an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician.

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Also known as: Edward Blyden

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His place of birth, St. Thomas[now US Virgin Islands] did not stop him from holding on to his African roots.

The claim of Edward Wilmot Blyden to the esteem and regard of all thinking Africans rests not so much upon the special work he has done for any particular people of the African race, as upon the general work he has done for the race as a whole.

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