Digitized Book Excerpt: Robert Brown Elliott
Subject
Robert B. Elliott
Title
Digitized Book Excerpt: Robert Brown Elliott
Date
1914
Type
Book Excerpt
Description
Note: See slide #225.
HathiTrust features an excerpt from the book, The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African Descent, written by John W. Cromwell in 1914. The excerpt provides a biographical summary on the life of Robert Brown Elliott- a British Black man who moved to South Carolina and later became a Congressman (R-SC) (book pages 179-187). Themes include: Elliott's upbring, study of law, move to Columbia, South Carolina, his attendance at the South Carolina State Constitutional Convention, election to both the South Carolina State House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives, his unsuccessful candidacy for attorney general of South Carolina, and a later move to New Orleans to practice law until his death.
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HathiTrust features an excerpt from the book, The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African Descent, written by John W. Cromwell in 1914. The excerpt provides a biographical summary on the life of Robert Brown Elliott- a British Black man who moved to South Carolina and later became a Congressman (R-SC) (book pages 179-187). Themes include: Elliott's upbring, study of law, move to Columbia, South Carolina, his attendance at the South Carolina State Constitutional Convention, election to both the South Carolina State House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives, his unsuccessful candidacy for attorney general of South Carolina, and a later move to New Orleans to practice law until his death.
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HathiTrust (Contributor: Emory University)
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“Digitized Book Excerpt: Robert Brown Elliott,” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 18, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/885.