ABSTRACT
A clergyman, Alexander Crummell went to England where he took a degree at Queen's College, Cambridge. From there he went to Africa, where he spent the next twenty years of his life in missionary and educational work in Liberia and Sierra Leone. In 1862, he visited the United States together with Edward Blyden as an official representative of the Liberian government to encourage emigration to Liberia. In 1873, he returned permanently to the United States to become pastor of a church in Washington. While he continued to be interested in the welfare of Liberia and of Africa, he was as much concerned with the domestic problems of the American Negro. He was one of the founders of the American Negro Academy. His works include The Future of Africa, 1862, and Africa and America, Addresses and Discourses, 1891. Africa lies low and is wretched. She is the maimed and crippled arm of humanity.
