{"id":81,"date":"2010-10-20T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T12:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=81"},"modified":"2015-08-12T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:16:32","slug":"early-african-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2010\/10\/20\/early-african-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Early African Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/10\/Liberia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/10\/Liberia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/10\/Liberia.jpg 800w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/10\/Liberia-218x300.jpg 218w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/10\/Liberia-745x1024.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>The Watkinson has\u00a0two issues (vol. 1 numbers 3 &amp; 4) of\u00a0the first newspaper published in the colony of Liberia. From 1830 to 1834, its editor was John Brown Russwurm, a Jamaican-born mulatto who was educated in Canada, graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, and then settled in New York where, in 1827, he and Samuel Cornish co-founded<em> Freedom&#8217;s Journal<\/em>, the first black newspaper in the United States. The <em>Liberia Herald<\/em> became the fifth oldest newspaper in Africa after the French-language periodicals published in Egypt during the Napoleonic occupation of 1797, the <em>Cape Town Gazette<\/em> of South Africa, 1800, The <em>Royal Gazette<\/em> <em>and Sierra Leone Advertiser<\/em>, 1801, and <em>The Royal Gold Coast Gazette<\/em>, 1822.<\/p>\n<p>The library record is here: <a id=\"persistentLink\" href=\"http:\/\/library.trincoll.edu\/voyager\/shortcut.cfm?BIBID=276493\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/library.trincoll.edu\/voyager\/shortcut.cfm?BIBID=276493<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watkinson has\u00a0two issues (vol. 1 numbers 3 &amp; 4) of\u00a0the first newspaper published in the colony of Liberia. From 1830 to 1834, its editor was John Brown Russwurm, a Jamaican-born mulatto who was educated in Canada, graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, and then settled in New York where, in 1827, he and Samuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}