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He argues that Christianity was introduced chiefly by European colonizers. In 1850 Blyden was refused admission to three Northern theological seminaries because of his race.

His book was controversial in Great Britain, both for its subject and because many people at first did not believe that a black African had written it. Let us do away with out African personality and be lost, if possible, in another Race. Blyden was prevented from entering the school, however, because of his race.

Christianity Islam And The Negro Race - In suggesting a redemptive role for African Americans in Africa through what he called , Blyden likened their suffering in the to that of the ; he supported the 19th-century project of Jews returning to Palestine.

Blyden, Edward Wilmot 1832-1912 Blyden was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, of pious parents associated with the integrated Dutch Reformed Church of St. Likewise his efforts to enroll at two other theological colleges failed. But while in the United States Islam and the Negro Race came into contact with Presbyterian associated with the colonization movement, under whose auspices he immigrated to Liberia in 1850. In 1851 he enrolled in Alexander High School in Monrovia. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in 1858. In 1886, having become somewhat sympathetic with Islam and distressed at the arrogance of Christian missionaries, he resigned from the Presbyterian Church. A his lifetime he held a variety of positions in Liberia and Sierra Leone—Secretary of State, ambassador to the court of St. James, Envoy Extraordinary to London and Paris. In 1887 his major work, Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race—was published. He also wrote many other books, pamphlets, and articles in which he sought to vindicate the Negro race. Bibliography Digital Primary Blyden, Islam and the Negro Race />The annual address before the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Monrovia, July 26, 1865, the day of national independence; and repeated on Tuesday, August 1, 1865, at Caldwell, St. With an introduction by Casely Hayford. The Call of Providence to the Descendants of Africa in America. A Discourse Delivered to Coloured Congregations in the Cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Harrisburg, during the Summer of 1862. Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1967. Blyden of Liberia: an Account of the Life and Labors of Edward Wilmot Blyden. New York: Vantage Press, 1966. Selected Letters of Edward Wilmot Blyden.