(1799–1851), U.S. editor, publisher, and statesman, born in Port Antonio, Jamaica; first black college graduate in U.S. (Bowdoin 1826); published first black newspaper Freedom's Journal with Samuel Cornish; his antislavery pleas aroused enmity; emigrated to Liberia (1829); became superintendent of public schools and edited Liberia Herald; governor of Maryland Colony, Cape Palmas, 1836–51